The autobiography of William Carlos Williams.
Publisher: New Directions Pub.
Published: 1967
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Williams, William Carlos, -- 1883-1963
Description: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). At the same time as maintaining a popular medical practice, he became a prolific poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. Experimenting with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh and singularly American poetics, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009.
Notes: "A New Directions book."