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    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - Volume II - Al Que Quiere!
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - Volume II - Al Que Quiere!
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - Volume II - Al Que Quiere!
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    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - Volume II - Al Que Quiere!

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    William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey.

    As well as being a poet he painted and maintained a lifelong interest in it. Williams was also a physician in both paediatrics and general medicine. He served at the Passaic General Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey as chief of paediatrics from 1924 until his death.

    Williams is most well-known for his poems that are closely associated with the Modernism and Imagism movements. In addition to poetry he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and worked on translations.

    He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement via friendships with Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). Soon his opinions moved away from theirs and his style began to confirm his alignment to a modernist expression of his surrounding environment.

    From the late 40’s health became a major issue in his life but with himself as the patient. He suffered a heart attack in 1948 and, after 1949, a series of strokes.

    One such stoke in 1953 left him in hospital for four months and brought about severe depression.

    In these later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets especially the American literary movements of the 1950s; the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.

    One of Williams's most productive relationships was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg's letters in Paterson, stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth volume of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems in 1956.

    William Carlos Williams died on March 4th, 1963, at the age of 79 at his home in Rutherford. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateJun 14, 2018
    ISBN9781787800724
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - Volume II - Al Que Quiere!
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    William Carlos Williams

    William Carlos Williams was an American author closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician, practicing both pediatrics and general medicine.

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      The Poetry of William Carlos Williams - Volume II - Al Que Quiere! - William Carlos Williams

      The Poetry of William Carlos Williams

      Volume II - Al Que Quiere! 

      William Carlos Williams was born on September 17, 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey.

      As well as being a poet he painted and maintained a lifelong interest in it.  Williams was also a physician in both paediatrics and general medicine. He served at the Passaic General Hospital in Passaic, New Jersey as chief of paediatrics from 1924 until his death.

      Williams is most well-known for his poems that are closely associated with the Modernism and Imagism movements. In addition to poetry he occasionally wrote short stories, plays, novels, essays, and worked on translations.

      He practiced medicine by day and wrote at night. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement via friendships with Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle (H.D.).  Soon his opinions moved away from theirs and his style began to confirm his alignment to a modernist expression of his surrounding environment.

      From the late 40’s health became a major issue in his life but with himself as the patient. He suffered a heart attack in 1948 and, after 1949, a series of strokes.

      One such stoke in 1953 left him in hospital for four months and brought about severe depression.

      In these later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets especially the American literary movements of the 1950s; the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, and the New York School.

      One of Williams's most productive relationships was with fellow New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg's letters in Paterson, stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth volume of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems in 1956.

      William Carlos Williams died on March 4th, 1963, at the age of 79 at his home in Rutherford. He was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst, New Jersey.

      Index of Poems

      AL QUE QUIERE! 

      Sub Terra

      Pastoral (I)

      Chickory and Daisies

      Metric Figure

      Woman Walking

      Gulls

      Appeal

      In Harbor

      Winter Sunset

      Apology

      Pastoral (II)

      Love Song

      M. B.

      Tract

      Promenade

      El Hombre

      Hero

      Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!

      Canthara

      Mujer

      Summer Song

      Love Song

      Foreign

      A Prelude

      History

      Winter Quiet

      Dawn

      Good Night

      Danse Russe

      Portrait of a Woman in Bed

      Virtue

      Conquest

      Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart

      Keller Gegen Dom

      Smell

      Ballet

      Sympathetic Portrait of a Child

      The Ogre

      Riposte

      The Old Men

      Pastoral (III)

      Spring Strains

      Trees

      A Portrait in Greys

      Invitation

      Divertimiento

      January Morning

      To a Solitary Disciple

      Dedication for a Plot of Ground

      K. McB.

      Love Song

      The Wanderer

      William Carlos Williams – A Concise Bibliography

      Al Que Quiere! 

      Sub Terra

      Where shall I find you,

      you my grotesque fellows

      that I seek everywhere

      to make up my band?

      None, not one

      with the earthy tastes I require;

      the burrowing pride that rises

      subtly as on

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