Paterson Book Five
(New York): New Directions, (1958).
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a handsome near fine dust jacket with a light damsptain near the bottom of the foot. Inscribed by Williams, in his post-stroke hand, to the poet Charles Bell: "Charles Bell from William Carlos Williams." Bell wrote three volumes of poetry and two novels. Both Bell's first novel, *The Married Land* (1962), and his poetry, was praised by Williams.
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William Carlos Williams
birth name: William Carlos Williams
born: 9/17/1883
died: 3/4/1963
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