Talk:William Carlos Williams

message: Just an annotation: The poems I'm using here are from a PD source and before 1923. So we can use them here. http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html
I found two pictures of WCW, but I'm not sure of the copyright situation... Can anyone help out?
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/galrywcw.jpg
This seems to be the best candidate for a PD picture: usually the text center of Virginia uses pd stuff. Though this pic seems to be part of an American Lit. Class. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/enam312/
been studing paterson for some time, and live near by and have taken pictures of the town and water falls: did get to meet AG prior to his death, but I could not find more info that is available. Amiri baraka was in paterson and is familiar with the town, and has been very involved more in the history of Newark, but not sure if he is going in the same direction as WCW went.
Been getting ready to start with the paterson wiki entry.
but first and foremost, have been trying to figure out that damn variable foot for some time, and have stumbled into it while reading the poem at the water fall and ears dropping on visitors on their cellphones. Also have a bunch of recording of random conversations here in northern new jersey as part of a cyborglog visual poetic system that I have been toying around withCulturejam 00:48, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You've shaken loose some cobwebs. Can you tell me more about the Others. I recall nothing, but that I might have an article on this in my archives. --Modemx 18:33, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: I added an entry on the Others. This is as much as I could find. --Roloway 23:57, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: The photo is pre 1923, and out of copyright, despite what the tag says. The tag refeers to the text. Filiocht | Talk 07:32, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
I'd just like to know on whose authority the writer of this page got the idea that Williams in any way shape or form helped Pound with the revisions of The Waste Land or had any idea the thing existed until Poetry magazine published it?  The idea of Williams doing anything but urinating on any pre-publication copy is as absurd as...well, its pretty absurd, to say the least. --Corbmobile
Do we really have to say that WCW is "best known" for The Red Wheelbarrow?  Certainly that's one that people mention, but I feel that his best works are others, and that he should be "best known" for having contributed sooo much in so many different ways to american literature.  Not for TRW.  I'm not going to edit it out myself, but I'll state my case here!--Rbeas 03:38, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Etc

message: Doesn't  the use of this long quotation from the author's introduction to a book violate copyright? Kdammers 10:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyright 

message: "He murdered my mom in bed" -- bogus line at end of first paragraph and I can't see it in editting.. new to wiki, too.
Still in error
WCW died in Rutherford, New Jersey, and had two sons only not 15 children.  Source Paul Mariani, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked70.160.248.196 (talk) 04:51, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  DELETE LINE 

message: "The Red Wheelbarrow" is not about a young girl recovering from a serious illness.  The article writer is perhaps recalling Williams' short story "The Use of Force."
:According to Mrs Williams WCW did not attend the Armory Show, and his accounts of doing so (eg in Autobiography) are actually about the 1916 Independents Exhibition
:Williams had two children not 15 as box states and died in Rutherford not Kentucky
:Five of Shot of Five (1910) is not a book by WCW
:The dates of the Collected Volumes I and II are 1986 and 1988.  
:Most recent discussions of WCW consider Paterson and Spring and All his major works.
best wishes 
70.160.248.196 (talk) 03:45, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the errors have been fixed thanks but please look in the box information.  WCW did not have 15 children! he had two sons, Paul and William Eric (see Mariani biography).  And he died in Rutherford, at home, not in Kentucky.  70.160.248.196 (talk) 04:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In future, you can fix such error yourself.  After all, this is a wiki.  Thanks. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 16:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: William Carlos Williams article errors

message: please, can someone EDIT this article- some of us are looking for accurate info.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.250.242.240 (talk) 17:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  is this article a BAD JOKE? 

message: I was rereading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostovevsky last year and came across this key passage. Porfiry Petrovitch, the investigator and procecutor of the murderer Raskolnikov exhorts the latter to find some purpose in his life in the aftermath of his crime:
"I know it's hard to believe, but give yourself up to life directly, without sophistry; don't puzzle over it. Don't worry. It will carry you straight to shore and set you on your feet. What shore? How should I know? I only believe you have a lot for which to live." (emphasis added)
Compare this to a well-known poem by WCW, Portrait of a Lady:
Your thighs are appletrees
whose blossoms touch the sky.
Which sky? The sky
where Watteau hung a lady's
slipper. Your knees
are a southern breeze -- or
a gust of snow. Agh! what
sort of man was Fragonard?
-- As if that answered
anything. -- Ah, yes. Below
the knees, since the tune
drops that way, it is
one of those white summer days,
the tall grass of your ankles
flickers upon the shore --
Which shore? --
the sand clings to my lips --
Which shore?
Agh, petals maybe. How
should I know?Which shore? Which shore?
-- the petals from some hidden
appletree -- Which shore?''
I said petals from an appletree. 
(emphasis added)
O.K., is this just random convergence, or did the poet insert this after reading the passage above?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Califa22651 (talk • contribs) 17:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dostovevsky and W.C.W. 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: Before anyone makes a panic reversion, this is to say that the para on Williams' contacts with "The Other" group has been moved down to the new section on his artistic contacts, where it now makes a better fit. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 20:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Para moved to new section