"What I lacked was even the idea of a twentieth-century tradition of radical or revolutionary poetics as a stream into which a young poet could dip her glass. Among elders, William Carlos Williams wrote from the landscape of ordinary urban, contemporary America, of ordinary poor and working people, and in a diction of everyday speech, plainspoken yet astonishingly musical and flexible. But I don't recall being taken out of my skin by any Williams poem, though later I would work with his phrasing and ways of breaking a line as a means of shedding formal metrics."
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Poets from the United StatesDemocratic socialistsBeat Generation writersUniversity of Pennsylvania alumniPhysicians from New Jersey
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Adrienne Rich What Is Found There (2003)
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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963) was an American poet and physician.
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