Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems
By: William Carlos Williams ; with an introduction by Herbert Leibowitz.
Publisher: New Directions Pub. Corp.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Love poetry, American.
Other titles: Asphodel, that greeny flower and other love poems.
Description: A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."