William Carlos Williams

A new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as Chekhov’s. The Doctor Stories collects thirteen of Williams’s stories (direct accounts of his experiences as a doctor), six related poems, and a chapter from his autobiography that connects the world of medicine and writing. It also includes a new...

Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams's astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader—The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.

Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination—a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams's best-known poetry, including Section I, which opens, "By the road to the contagious hospital," and Section XXII, where Williams penned...

Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction, this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organised the whole in chronological order. It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art, Williams maintained, it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives...

Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. Death the Barber The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively simple work of William Carlos Williams revolutionised American verse, and made him one...