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.
Poetry
Summer 1955
Of Asphodel
Book 3 What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention What has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? Because of this I […]
Poetry
Summer 1953
The Host
According to their need, this tall Negro evangelist (at a table separate from the rest of his party); these two young Irish nuns (to be described subsequently); and this white-haired […]
Poetry
Summer 1948
Two Deliberate Exercises
I. LESSON FROM A PUPILS’ RECITAL (For Agnes) In a four-fold silence the music struggles for mastery and the mind from its silence, fatefully assured, wakens to the music: […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1946
Shapiro Is All Right
(Editors’ Note.—William Carlos Williams is treated by Shapiro as an “objectivist” poet, in part as follows: And (if this is not irrelevant) I for one Have stared long hours at […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1939
Federico Garcia Lorca
In 1936 Lorca was dragged through the streets of Granada to face the Fascist firing squad. The reasons were not obvious. He was not active in Leftist circles; but he […]
Poetry
Winter 1946
A Place (Any Place) to Transcend All Places
In New York, it is said, they do meet (if that is what is wanted, talk) but nothing is exchanged unless that guff can be retranslated: as to say, that […]
Summer 2012
Voyages
First Published in The Kenyon Review, Summer 1948, Vol. X, No. 3 In the center, above the basin, the mirror. To the left of it the Maxfield Parrish, Ulysses at […]