num_pages: 604
description: Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard―."So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.
language: English
title: The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
titlecomplete: The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
genres: 20th Century, American, Art, Unfinished, Poetry, Literature, College, Classics, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6149
publisher: New Directions