DR WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS,PHYSICIAN AND POET

Dr.Williams and Ezra Pound

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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS b.SEP 17 ,1883,RUTHERFORD,N.J.,d.MARCH 4,1963,RUTHERFORD,N.J.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS,PHYSICIAN AND POET WAS ALWAYS BUSY WITH HIS PATIENTS ,POETRY AND PROSE.HIS COLLECTED POEMS IN 2 VOLUMES,AND HIS SELECTED POEMS SHOW THIS.HE ALSO PUBLISHED "IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN"ON AMERICANS CHARACTERS.

HE WAS BORN IN RUTHERFORD,NOW MORE FAMOUS FOR GIANTS STADIUM,WHERE NEW YORK FOOTBALL TEAMS GIANTS AND JETS PLAY.HE PRACTICED AS PEDIATRICIAN IN RUTHERFORD AND HE PASSED AWAY THERE.

"THE FIRST THING ONE NOTICES ABOUT WILLIAMS' POETRY IS HOW RADICALLY SENSATIONAL AND PERCEPTIONAL IT IS: "SAY IT!NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS",AS RANDALL JARRELL REMINDING US IN AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS SELECTED POEMS.

"ONE MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT OF SIGHT,BUT WHO COULD THINK OF WHAT IT SEES,FOR ALL THE ILL IT SEES."

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS IN THESE LINES AND OTHER POEMS ,AND HIS DIRECT IMPRESSION OF LIFE AND THE WORLD SEARCHED THROUGH POETRY OF HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR,EZRA POUND, AND LEFT HIS HERITAGE FOR YOUNGER POETS,AND ESPECIALLY ALLEN GINSBURG AND BEAT MOVEMENT.

"A HEAVENLY MAN YOU SEEM TO ME NOW

NEVER HAVING BEEN FOR ME A SAINTLY ONE."

ONCE ONE ASKED DR.WILLIAMS THAT WITH HIS BUSY MEDICAL PRACTICE,WHEN HE FINDS TIME TO WRITE.HE ANSWERED BETWEEN SEEING THE PATIENTS.

IT SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR!

THIS IS THE TIME TO CELEBRATE WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS BIRTHDAY

BY READING HIS OUEVRES

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