The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems

by William Carlos Williams

Overview

Here is a perfect little gift: the most beloved poems by the most essential American poet of the last century
Gathered here are the gems of William Carlos Williams’s astonishing achievements in poetry. Dramatic, energetic, beautiful, and true, this slim selection will delight any reader—The Red Wheelbarrow & Other Poems is a book to be treasured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811227889
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	05/29/2018
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	77,224
Product dimensions:	4.00(w) x 6.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), author of Paterson and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel, is widely considered one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Also a short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator, he helped in a big way to establish modernism in America.

Editorial Reviews

It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century’s major American poet.

Chicago Tribune

He had a thirst for now. And he had his own beat, ‘a certain unquenchable exaltation’ as he said of his renowned wheelbarrow. The excitement the writing exuded is as contagious today as when he made his rounds ‘quickened by the life about him.’ The reader is induced to stay awake. Make contact. Look ahead.

C. D. Wright

Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry.

Octavio Paz

Possibly no modern American poem is more widely known than Williams’s ‘The Red Wheelbarrow,’ that tiny epiphany. Williams himself, not given to making high claims for his own work, considered this poem ‘quite perfect.’ If you look at the lingua franca of American poetry today—a colloquial free verse focused on visual description and meaningful anecdote—it seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do.

Adam Kirsch - The New York Review of Books