
William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
Paul Mariani
#2747 of 3,809 books · #991 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1983).
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) emerged alongside Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Frost, and Yeats as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Paterson, Williams's epic masterpiece, raised everyday American speech to the highest levels of poetic imagination. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book. From a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies to an extraordinary revolutionary, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language in this definitive masterwork.
- Publisher
- Trinity University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781595347657
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Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1983)
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