num_pages: 200
description: “No poetry is more fresh, more immediate, more deftly challenging,” writes editor Robert Pinsky. “William Carlos Williams is at the center of one of poetry’s greatest historical flowerings.” A poet of astonishing range and inventiveness, Williams was at once a daring formal innovator, one of the band of modernists who transformed American poetry, and an intimate, sometimes savagely frank chronicler of the life and landscape of his native New Jersey.From the beginning he pursued an independent course, creating a diverse and unfailingly vital body of work, from the hard-edged experiments of  Spring and All  to the fluent lyricism of “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.” His influence on generations of poets has been indelible, and as this masterful new selection demonstrates, his poems retain their capacity to astonish and delight.About the American Poets ProjectElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
language: English
title: William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems:
titlecomplete: William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #14)
genres: 20th Century, American, Unfinished, Poetry, Literature, Romanticism, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 17255
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Library of America