{"product_id":"selected-poems-9780811209588","title":"Selected Poems","description":"Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art,\" Williams maintained, \"it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliams, William Carlos:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Besides being a practicing physician, \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e (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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomlinson, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCharles Tomlinson\u003c\/strong\u003e read English at Queens College, Cambridge, has lived in Northern Italy and London, and has recently retired after thirty-six years of teaching at the University of Bristol. In 1993 he received the Bennett Award for achievement in literature from \u003cem\u003eThe Hudson Review\u003c\/em\u003e of New York, and in 1991 the Premio Europeo di Cittadella. He is the editor of the classic anthology \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Gloucester, England.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620694528274,"sku":"9780811209588","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a39cf2d9-3456-490b-9ae2-67d97f8dd836.jpg?v=1732571627","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-9780811209588","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}