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Author
Series
Pocket poets ; no. 4
Publisher
The City Lights Pocket Bookshop
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
Ginsberg's 1956 collection of poems created a sensation, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing the literary landscape forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During his long lifetime, Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician. Although his primary occupation was as a doctor, Williams had a full literary career. His work consists...
Author
Publisher
Folcroft Library Editions
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
This is an unusual short classic by poet William Carlos Williams.
Written in 1923 and originally published in France, The Great American Novel examines the impossibility of writing such work in America.
Williams not only writes the novel with poetic satire and pathos but allows us into his writing process, as he strives to define a young America at the end of a World War and the beginning of the "Roaring '20s."
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP118
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems written between 1950 and 1962 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, including the complete texts of two earlier volumes, as well as a selection of previously uncollected works.
15) Imaginations
Author
Publisher
[New Directions Pub. Corp.]
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
From the cover. Imaginations makes accessible to the broad reading public five early books by William Carlos Williams, which, except for Kora in Hell, have long been hard to find in their original and complete forms. Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely,...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 585
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
This collection of thirteen "doctor stories," six poems on medical matters, and a selection from The Autobiography "can help many others take a knowing look at the medical profession."--Back cover.
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