Al Que Quiere! - William Carlos Williams

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Résumé :
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 parec?a?un caballo (The Man Who Resembled a Horse), by the Guatemalan author Rafael Ar?valo Mart?nez. 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!...

Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:
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 parec?a?un caballo (The Man Who Resembled a Horse), by the Guatemalan author Rafael Ar?valo Mart?nez. 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!...