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Antología bilingüe
Autor de una vasta producción literaria que comprende relatos, novelas, teatro, poemas en prosa, crítica y ensayo, amén de infinidad de cartas, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) fue también, y quizá ante todo, un gran poeta. Imbuida de los sentidos del oído y de la vista, la mayor parte de su obra lírica es fácil de entender, huye de lo abstracto («no hay ideas sino en las cosas»), se compone de poemas por lo general breves y es la que mejor logró expresar, desde Whitman, la sensibilidad norteamericana, lo que le ha valido el reconocimiento de figuras como Allen Gisnsberg, Robert Lowell, Raymond Carver o Charles Bukowski. La presente ANTOLOGÍA BILINGÜE, seleccionada, traducida y presentada por Juan Miguel López Merino, ofrece un inmejorable panorama de la entera trayectoria poética de Williams, recogiendo al menos un texto de casi todos sus libros. Del mismo autor en esta colecció «Cuentos» (L 5715).
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William Carlos Williams
425 books827 followersWilliam Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During his long lifetime, Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician.
Although his primary occupation was as a doctor, Williams had a full literary career. His work consists of short stories, poems, plays, novels, critical essays, an autobiography, translations, and correspondence. He wrote at night and spent weekends in New York City with friends—writers and artists like the avant-garde painters Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia and the poets Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore. He became involved in the Imagist movement but soon he began to develop opinions that differed from those of his poetic peers, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Later in his life, Williams toured the United States giving poetry readings and lectures.
In May 1963, he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) and the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.
Williams' house in Rutherford is now on the National Register of Historic Places. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009.
Although his primary occupation was as a doctor, Williams had a full literary career. His work consists of short stories, poems, plays, novels, critical essays, an autobiography, translations, and correspondence. He wrote at night and spent weekends in New York City with friends—writers and artists like the avant-garde painters Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia and the poets Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore. He became involved in the Imagist movement but soon he began to develop opinions that differed from those of his poetic peers, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Later in his life, Williams toured the United States giving poetry readings and lectures.
In May 1963, he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) and the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.
Williams' house in Rutherford is now on the National Register of Historic Places. He was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009.
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February 5, 2017
Antología de más de setenta poemas de casi todas sus obras. Incluye una introducción bastante buena y algunas notas muy útiles. Buen libro para introducirse en la obra del autor.
November 23, 2018
In spite of the fact that I don't like anthology books because of their ephemeral scar on the reader's skin, I fancied this one. Some of the poems were nicely written. I must confess I love bilingual editions
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