In The American Grain

Norfolk, Connecticut: The New Classics / New Directions, (1925?).

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo. 235pp. Introduction by Horace Gregory. Owner's name on front pastedown, cloth moderately soiled specifically the spine, else a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.

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Item #460305 In The American Grain. William Carlos WILLIAMS.

William Carlos Williams
birth name: William Carlos Williams
born: 9/17/1883
died: 3/4/1963

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Biography

American poet who succeeded in making the ordinary appear extraordinary through the clarity and discreteness of his imagery. Williams, trained as a pediatrician, devoted himself to a lifetime of poetry writing and medical practice in his hometown. In Al Que Quiere! (1917), roughly translated "To Him Who Wants It," his style is distinctly his own. Characteristic poems that express Williams' fresh, direct impression of the sensuous world are the frequently anthologized "Lighthearted William" and "By the Road to the Contagious Hospital" and "The Red Wheelbarrow," both of the latter published in Spring and All (1923). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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