I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet by William Carlos Williams

I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet

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I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet by William Carlos Williams
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I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet

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 Subtitled "The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet," this unique volume was the result of a series of informal conversations in the mid-1950s between Dr. Williams, his wife, and Edith Heal, then a student at Columbia University. In the relaxed atmosphere of the Williams home in Rutherford, New Jersey, the three discussed, chronologically, the poet's works as collected on his very own library shelves. "There was an air of discovery about the whole procedure," Miss Heal writes in her introduction, "the poet's excited 'Why I'd forgotten this dedication, ' the unexpected appearance of reviews that had been tucked away in the pages of the books, pencilled corrections in the text, scrawled first drafts on prescription blanks." I Wanted to Write a Poem is, then, a brief "talking" bibliography, alive with the Williamses' memories of the circumstances in which the books were brought into being--in Miss Heal's words, "a nostalgic review of the early twentieth-century literary world."
Book Details
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
9780811207072
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
132
Authors:
William Carlos Williams
Published Date:
1977-01-17
Language:
English
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About William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was an American modernist poet born in Rutherford, New Jersey, where he practiced medicine throughout his life. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania medical school, where he knew Ezra Pound and H.D., he summarized his approach in the dictum "no ideas but in things." His collections include Spring and All (1923), the book-length Paterson (New Directions, 1946–1958), and Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (New Directions, 1962), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry posthumously in 1963. He won the first National Book Award for Poetry in 1950 and the Bollingen Prize in 1953.

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