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<p>With the publication of this book, Charles Tomlinson's edition of Williams's <b>Selected Poems</b>, New Directions has introduced a gathering larger and more comprehensive than the original 1963 edition.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>His Selected Poems sets the violent brooding of Williams's (A Dream of Mind) early writing against the lucid equanimity of his more mature work. The poetry spans three decades and offers an outline of his development. We get only occasional glimpses of the crude brutality that characterizes the poems from Lies (1969) and I am the Bitter Name (1972) in the mostly affirmative selections from Tar (1983), Flesh and Blood (1987) and his other recent books. Early, physically explicit and jarring poems like ``Saint Sex'' lead to the more cerebral work that has come to represent his style. The poems excerpted from The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (1983) reinforce a reader's impression of Williams's versatility while offering a formal alternative to the lengthy, Whitmanesque lines that he appears to prefer. And, though not ground-breaking, the dozen new poems here offer a closing, microcosmic view of his career with topically and stylistically familiar

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Author

William Carlos Williams

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811209571

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (11,922 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13