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Summer 1948 • Vol. X No. 3 • Poetry |

Two Deliberate Exercises

By William Carlos Williams

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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a major writer in the modernist movement. His works include Kora in Hell (1920), Spring and All (1923), and Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962). Williams was a highly acclaimed writer, winning the National Book Award in 1950 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1963.

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