Contents
The River of Language . . .by Paul Mariani
William Carlos Williams: Refining the Pure Products of the American Grain by Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro
WCW
The Carlos Poems
The Thief of Poetry
Appetite
William Carlos Williams Back in Puerto Rico
Prescriptions
What I Know about Poetry
The Book of the Dead Man (The Red Wheelbarrow)
For Bill Charley Bill on Memorial Day
Sonnet XV
Taking the Field
In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams
Dream Song #324: An Elegy for W.C.W., the lovely man
Phone Call to Rutherford
A Dream of William Carlos Williams
Two Twilights for William Carlos Williams
September 3 (The Dr. William Carlos Williams Mistake)
The Influence of William Carlos Williams
Bicentennial
“W CW & Mary O”
For W.C.W.
Alicia Silverstone Meets William Carlos Williams
Confession
Williams Was Wrong
In Defense of Forest Lawn
A Physical Moon beyond Paterson
Memory
To William Carlos Williams
Some Elsie
Call Me Pier
Slow Rain, October
Ars Poetica on Lava
Williams in Autumn
Death News
The Outernationale
Saxifrage: To the Memory of William Carlos Williams
Red Wheel Boogie and Dog Star Night
An Exculpation
The Confessions of Doc Williams
Liberty Brass
Words for Dr. Williams
For WCW
Plea for Forgiveness
83rd Chorus
For William Carlos Williams
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
WCW on Marsden Hartley
WCW
So Much Depends
Poem in the Manner of William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Willams at Paterson Falls
Williams: An Essay
Making It Work
When People First Said I Must Have BeenInfluenced by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
Eka Pada Rajakapotasana: One Legged King Pigeon Pose
The Young Doctor (1916)
Elegy for William Carlos Williams on the Eve of His 125th Birthday
From a Window
On Reading “Days and Nights” by Kenneth Koch
From the Cutting-Room Floor
By Defective Means
For W. C. Williams
This Is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting
To a Poet
Red Mallows
We Mark the Centennial of William Carlos Williams’Birth Observing a New Hampshire Patriot
A Critical Glance at William Carlos Williams’ Poem “The Dance”
Excerpt from “Canto LXXVIII” (from The Pisan Cantos)
For Doctor WCW
Violets in a Pewter Vase
A Letter to William Carlos Williams
W.C.W.—In Memoriam
Fragment
Mullens
For WCW
From the Desk of William Carlos Williams: Notes Toward a Speech in Three Parts
For William Carlos Williams
A Red Wheelbarrow
Understanding Poetry, by William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens
Nuances of a Theme by Williams
Getting to Sleep in New Jersey
Turning
Remembering Williams
A Confession
Walking with Dr. Williams
Plums
The Nostalgias of Change
Old Sycamore
“Not in ideas . . .”
Doctor Bill Williams
For William Carlos Williams
The Oldest Garden in the World
Song
W.C.W. Watching Presley’s Second Appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show: Mercy Hospital, Newark, 1956
Homage to William Carlos Williams
Homage to William Carlos Williams
A Letter to William Carlos Williams
Bookmark, Selected Poems, William Carlos Williams
Commercial Poem
Keats to Williams
Facing It
Notes on Contributors
Permissions
Index to Titles