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The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams’s medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in the
Autobiography
tells how each of his two roles stimulated and supported the other.
Paperback
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414 pages
Published
January 17th 1967
by New Directions
(first published 1951)
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If the first thing you want to know is where he was born and what his lousy childhood was like and how WCW's parents were occupied before they had him and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, then this is the book for you. It starts there, meanders through his adolescence, and dwells for the rest of the time in adulthood. It's an autobiography, after all. There is no end in an autobiography... if you know what I mean.
But here's the man behind the poems, college friend of Ezra Pound and H.D., ...more
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Marvelous! WCW as storyteller, his story, of lyrical days, a different time, indeed, and I beg to differ, but the poet from Rutherford lead an extraordinary life. It's been a very long time since I enjoyed a book so thoroughly, some favorites: "A Maternity Case," "Our Fisherman," "The Baroness," and, of course, the invaluable insight into the many artists he knew (I agree, Marsden Hartley, one of the best), and seems he met or knew just about everyone. Perhaps even more valuable are the lessons
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In WCW's art of poetry interview, Flossie calls the number of errors in this book "inexcusable." That said, I'm quite curious about what was erroneous seeing as the book wavers between inconsequential and barely relevant w great ease. If nothing else it's a good curio of a book but I got so little out of it. Feels especially deceptive, too, after reading some critical biography on him
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This book is worth the price of admission if only for the description of Ezra Pound onstage, in drag with his "great blonde wig at which he tore as he waved his arms about and heaved his massive breasts in ecstasies of extreme emotion."
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Stubborn, affectionate, charming, clever, and self-deprecating in the most appealing way, William Carlos Williams comes across as someone I'd love to know.
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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.
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