This volume argues that the highly articulated dynamics of Williams's first two volumes of collected poetry, Collected Poems 1921-1931 and The Complete Collected Poems 1906-1938, constitute nothing less than major poetic sequences that give compelling lyrical structure and definition to his overall [...]

This Companion contains thirteen new essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works - including Paterson, In the American Grain, and the Stecher trilogy. It addresses central issues of recent Williams scholarship and discusses a wide v[...]

"When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing."
--William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams made his mark on the world as a legendary moderni[...]

Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always lived in a "provincial" part of the country without an established literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos [...]