Franklin Library: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: POEMS: NEW JERSEY POET/BABY DOCTOR

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of William Carlos Williams's "Selected Poems," Illustrated by with a portfolio of paintings by Charles Sheeler, Introduction by Randall Jarrell, a Limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, published in 1984. Bound in scarlet red leather, the book has red moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges—in Fine condition. William Carlos Williams, who lived from 1883--1963, was an American poet, writer and physician and closely associated with modernism and imagism. Williams was a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, the son of a Dominican Republic father and a Puerto Rican mother. He attended two years in a school near Geneva and the Lycee Condorcet in Paris before attending medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. Williams assisted his friend, EZRA POUND, when the later was jailed for criticizing the U.S. government during WW 2. Williams shared with Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens feeling that almost nothing is more important, more of a true delight, than the way things look. Williams once said that "A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words." This volume includes his major poems, including "Queen Anne's Lace," "This Is Just to Say," "Patterson: The Falls," "Burning the Christmas Greens," "Danse Russe," "The Last Words of My English Grandmother," "The Sea Elephant," "To Daphne and Virginia," "The Botticellian Trees," "The Widow's Lament in Springtime," "The Three Graces," "Raleigh Was Right," "Nantucket," "An Elegy to D.H. Lawrence," "A Marriage Ritual," "To Mark Anthony in Heaven," and "To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven," and my favorite: "The Red Wheelbarrow" in much "so much depends upon/ a red wheel barrow/ glazed with rain water/ beside the white chicken." Randall Jarrell says in the introduction that Williams's poems are honest, exact, and original. His poems are full of imperatives, exclamations, trochee---the rhythms and dynamics of their speech. . .He had a boyish delight and trust in Things." 204 pages---a RARE title. I offer combined shipping.

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