William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems

by Williams, William Carlos

• ISBN13: 9781931082716
• ISBN10: 1931082715
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

With the publication of this book, Charles Tomlinson's edition of Williams's Selected Poems, New Directions has introduced a gathering larger and more comprehensive than the original 1963 edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Peace on Earth	1	(1)
Con Brio	2	(1)
Aux Imagistes	3	(1)
Metric Figure (``Veils of clarity'')	3	(1)
Stillness	4	(1)
The Young Housewife	5	(1)
Pastoral	5	(1)
Metric Figure (``There is a bird . . .'')	6	(1)
Apology	7	(1)
Pastoral	8	(1)
El Hombre	9	(1)
Danse Russe	9	(1)
Smell!	10	(1)
Spring Strains	10	(2)
January Morning	12	(4)
To a Solitary Disciple	16	(2)
Dedication for a Plot of Ground	18	(1)
Love Song	19	(1)
Le Medecin Malgre Lui	20	(1)
A Coronal	21	(1)
To Mark Anthony in Heaven	22	(1)
Portrait of a Lady	23	(1)
Willow Poem	24	(1)
Approach of Winter	24	(1)
January	25	(1)
To Waken an Old Lady	25	(1)
Complaint	26	(1)
Thursday	27	(1)
Play	27	(1)
Complete Destruction	27	(1)
Queen-Anne's-Lace	28	(1)
Waiting	29	(1)
Arrival	30	(1)
Blueflags	30	(1)
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	31	(1)
The Lonely Street	32	(1)
The Great Figure	33	(17)
from Spring and All
``By the road to the contagious hospital''	34	(1)
``The farmer in deep thought''	35	(1)
``The Easter stars are shining''	36	(1)
``The rose is obsolete''	37	(2)
``In passing with my mind''	39	(1)
``Of death''	40	(2)
``O tongue''	42	(1)
``The pure products of America''	43	(3)
``so much depends''	46	(2)
``Somebody dies every four minutes''	48	(1)
``The crowd at the ball game''	48	(2)
My Luv	50	(1)
The Bull	50	(1)
Fish	51	(4)
The Drunkard	55	(1)
The Dead Baby	56	(1)
Winter	57	(1)
On Gay Wallpaper	58	(1)
The Lily	59	(6)
from The Descent Of Winter
9/30 ``There are no perfect waves---''	60	(1)
10/21 ``In the dead weeds a rubbish heap''	60	(1)
10/28 ``in this strong light''	61	(1)
10/29 ``The justice of poverty''	62	(1)
11/1 ``The moon, the dried weeds''	63	(1)
11/20 ``Even idiots grow old''	64	(1)
The Moon---	65	(1)
Child and Vegetables	65	(2)
The Trees	67	(2)
The Wind Increases	69	(1)
The Sea-Elephant	70	(3)
Death	73	(2)
The Botticellian Trees	75	(2)
Poem	77	(1)
Nantucket	78	(1)
This Is Just To Say	78	(1)
An Early Martyr	79	(2)
Flowers by the Sea	81	(1)
To a Poor Old Woman	82	(1)
Proletarian Portrait	82	(1)
The Raper from Passenack	83	(2)
Genesis	85	(1)
The Yachts	85	(2)
Fine Work with Pitch and Copper	87	(1)
St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils	88	(2)
Advent of Today	90	(1)
Classic Scene	91	(1)
Autumn	92	(1)
The Term	92	(1)
The Poor	93	(1)
Between Walls	94	(1)
Middle	95	(1)
These	96	(2)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother	98	(2)
River Rhyme	100	(1)
The End of the Parade	100	(1)
River Rhyme II	101	(1)
Election Day	101	(1)
Passaic, N.J.	102	(1)
Gothic Candor	102	(1)
A Sort of a Song	103	(1)
Paterson: The Falls	103	(2)
The Dance	105	(1)
Burning the Christmas Greens	106	(3)
Raleigh Was Right	109	(1)
To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven	110	(2)
A Woman in Front of a Bank	112	(1)
When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue	113	(1)
Threnody	113	(1)
East Coocoo	114	(1)
The Woodpecker	115	(1)
Passer Domesticus	116	(1)
The Descent	117	(1)
To a Dog Injured in the Street	118	(3)
The Yellow Flower	121	(3)
The Artist	124	(1)
Theocritus: Idyl I	125	(6)
A Negro Woman	131	(1)
To a Man Dying on His Feet	132	(1)
The Pink Locust	133	(18)
from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Book I	136	(11)
Coda	147	(4)
Sappho	151	(1)
Greeting for Old Age	152	(6)
from Pictures from Brueghel
Self-Portrait	153	(1)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	154	(1)
The Hunters in the Snow	155	(1)
Peasant Wedding	156	(1)
Children's Games, I	157	(1)
Exercise	158	(1)
Jersey Lyric	158	(1)
Metric Figure (``gotta hold your nose'')	159	(1)
The Gossips	159	(1)
Poem	160	(1)
The High Bridge Above the Tagus River at Toledo	161	(1)
Sonnet in Search of an Author	162	(1)
The Turtle	163	(2)
To My Friend Ezra Pound	165	(1)
Heel & Toe to the End	166	(1)
Stormy	167	(4)
Biographical Note	171	(2)
Note on the Texts	173	(6)
Notes	179	(3)
Index of Titles and First Lines	182