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Al Que Quiere! William Carlos Williams

Al Que Quiere! By William Carlos Williams

Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams


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The centennial edition of William Carlos Williams's early ground-breaking volume, containing some of his best-loved poems

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Al Que Quiere! Summary

Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams

Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press, Al Que Quiere! was William Carlos Williams's breakthrough book and contains some of his best-loved poems (Tract, Apology, El Hombre, Danse Russe, January Morning, and Smell!), as well as a Whitmanesque concluding long poem, The Wanderer, that anticipates his epic masterpiece Paterson. Al Que Quiere! is the culmination of an experimental period for Williams that included his translations from Spanish. The Spanish epigraph of Al Que Quiere! is from the short story El hombre que parecia un caballo (The Man Who Resembled a Horse), by the Guatemalan author Rafael Arevalo Martinez. This centennial edition contains Williams's translation of the story, as well as his commentary from a book of conversations, I Wanted to Write a Poem, on the individual poems of Al Que Quiere!

Al Que Quiere! Reviews

For all his roughness there remains with me the conviction that there is nothing meaningless in his book, Al Que Quiere!, not a line. -- Ezra Pound
It seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do. -- The New York Review of Books
It is ever more apparent that Williams is this century's major American poet. -- The Chicago Tribune

About William Carlos Williams

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the local experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs. Jonathan Cohen is a poet, translator, and essayist. He is the editor and translator of Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, by Ernesto Cardenal, and the editor of By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959, by William Carlos Williams (both published by New Directions).

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CIN0811226662G
9780811226660
0811226662
Al Que Quiere! by William Carlos Williams
Used - Good
Paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
20171107
128
N/A
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