Al Que Quiere! Contributor(s): Williams, William Carlos (Author), Cohen, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0811226662 ISBN-13: 9780811226660 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 811.52 |
LCCN: 2017018497 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" L (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press, Al Que Quiere! was William Carlos Williams's breakthrough book and contains some of his best-loved poems ("Tract," "Apology," "El Hombre," "Danse Russe," "January Morning," and "Smell!"), as well as a Whitmanesque concluding long poem, "The Wanderer," that anticipates his epic masterpiece Paterson. Al Que Quiere! is the culmination of an experimental period for Williams that included his translations from Spanish. The Spanish epigraph of Al Que Quiere! is from the short story "El hombre que parecía un caballo" ("The Man Who Resembled a Horse"), by the Guatemalan author Rafael Arévalo Martínez. This centennial edition contains Williams's translation of the story, as well as his commentary from a book of conversations, I Wanted to Write a Poem, on the individual poems of Al Que Quiere! |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, William Carlos: - Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.Cohen, Jonathan: - Jonathan Cohen is a poet, translator, and essayist. He is the editor and translator of Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, by Ernesto Cardenal, and the editor of By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959, by William Carlos Williams (both published by New Directions). |
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