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Antología poética
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 poética ofrece un inmejorable panorama de la entera trayectoria poética de Williams, recogiendo al menos un texto de casi todos sus libros.
- GenresPoetry
240 pages, Paperback
Published January 25, 2018
About the author
William Carlos Williams
433 books846 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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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
May 13, 2021
Una magnífica recopilación de algunos de los mejores poemas de Williams, y leerlos en inglés fue una delicia, puesto que uno puede paladear la musicalidad de su verso, que escapa, por mucho, a la rima. La musicalidad reside en la estructura poética.
Si verso evoca la sencillez del paisaje, de la anécdota, pero la sublima con el estilo que tiene. Mis poemas favoritos fueron:
Cantárides.
Pastoral.
Idilio.
Invitación.
Destrucción total.
Llegada.
Los vientos.
Mesera.
Esto sólo es para decirte.
Mujer joven en una ventana.
Árbol y cielo.
El acto.
Si verso evoca la sencillez del paisaje, de la anécdota, pero la sublima con el estilo que tiene. Mis poemas favoritos fueron:
Cantárides.
Pastoral.
Idilio.
Invitación.
Destrucción total.
Llegada.
Los vientos.
Mesera.
Esto sólo es para decirte.
Mujer joven en una ventana.
Árbol y cielo.
El acto.
September 16, 2021
---------El acto----------
"Ahí estaban las rosas, bajo la lluvia.
No las cortes, supliqué.
No durarán mucho, dijo ella.
Pero están tan hermosas
donde están.
Bah, todos fuimos hermosos una vez,
dijo,
y las cortó y me las puso
en la mano."
Este libro me parece una excelente opción para adentrarse en la obra del poeta estadounidense; como puntos fuertes contiene un breve estudio introductorio y el poema original junto a su traducción. La poesía de Williams me parece honesta y directa, sumamente contemplativa, cotidiana: el día a día propuesto por él se vuelve un estilo, un intento por desautomatizar las cosas, los actos, las personas y los momentos. "No hay ideas sino en las cosas" se vuelve la máxima de su producción literaria, en ella se respira sencillez y trabajo, brevedad y profundidad.
"Ahí estaban las rosas, bajo la lluvia.
No las cortes, supliqué.
No durarán mucho, dijo ella.
Pero están tan hermosas
donde están.
Bah, todos fuimos hermosos una vez,
dijo,
y las cortó y me las puso
en la mano."
Este libro me parece una excelente opción para adentrarse en la obra del poeta estadounidense; como puntos fuertes contiene un breve estudio introductorio y el poema original junto a su traducción. La poesía de Williams me parece honesta y directa, sumamente contemplativa, cotidiana: el día a día propuesto por él se vuelve un estilo, un intento por desautomatizar las cosas, los actos, las personas y los momentos. "No hay ideas sino en las cosas" se vuelve la máxima de su producción literaria, en ella se respira sencillez y trabajo, brevedad y profundidad.
June 18, 2020
Como un álbum de fotografías.
May 29, 2022
Poesía sencilla y breve con una evidente influencia del haiku, incluso con la propia inmersión en el género poético:
Lo the leaves
Upon the new autumn grass—
Look at them well...!
Lo the leaves
Upon the new autumn grass—
Look at them well...!
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March 16, 2024Comencé a leer a William Carlos Williams y no me gustaba demasiado, pero tras esta antología me he dado cuenta de que a pesar de que su estilo no es mi favorito hay muchos poemas suyos que me encantan y me encuentro pensando en ellos recurrentemente! The act, poem...
September 9, 2024
William Carlos Williams fue un pintor cuyo lienzo eran las palabras. Muy bello e introspectivo. Hay varios que no me dicen mucho, pero los que sí, me parecen hermosos sin la necesidad de ser muy largos o complejos.
February 11, 2021
This is just to say
I love William Carlos Williams
I love William Carlos Williams
April 25, 2024
qué bonito el día a día de una vida ordinaria
July 25, 2024
A very well translated work on the poetry of one of my favorites, William Carlos Williams. Gracias, Juan Miguel López Merino.
August 30, 2024
Retrato contemplativo de la cotidianidad estadounidense
September 20, 2024
He leido escasos libros sobre poesía y sinceramente, este me ha parecido un punto de partida maravilloso para cambiar esto. William Carlos Williams es dueño y señor de la sencillez, la rutina y lo cotidiano, transmitiendo al lector imágenes bellas y precisas con cada uno de sus escritos.
September 21, 2024
Contemplativa y simple, bella a ratos. Me quedo con algunos poemas. Mi favorito sin duda es: Mujer joven en una ventana. Me encanta la imagen y la pequeña historia que crea.
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December 10, 2018THE THINKER
My wife’s new pink slippers
have gay pom-poms.
There is not a spot or a stain
on their satin toes or their sides.
All night they lie together
under her bed’s edge.
Shivering I catch sight of them
and smile, in the morning.
Later I watch them
descending the stair,
hurrying through the doors
and round the table,
moving stiffly
with a shake of their gay pom-poms!
And I talk to them
in my secret mind
out of pure happiness.
THE OGRE
Sweet child,
little girl with well-shaped legs
you cannot touch the thoughts
I put over and under and around you.
This is fortunate for they would
burn you to an ash otherwise.
Your petals would be quite curled up.
This is all beyond you—no doubt,
yet you do feel the brushings
of the fine needles;
the tentative lines of your whole body
prove it to me;
so does your fear of me,
your shyness;
likewise the toy baby cart
that you are pushing—
and besides, mother has begun
to dress your hair in a knot.
These are my excuses.
TO A POOR OLD WOMAN
munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her
You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand
Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her
My wife’s new pink slippers
have gay pom-poms.
There is not a spot or a stain
on their satin toes or their sides.
All night they lie together
under her bed’s edge.
Shivering I catch sight of them
and smile, in the morning.
Later I watch them
descending the stair,
hurrying through the doors
and round the table,
moving stiffly
with a shake of their gay pom-poms!
And I talk to them
in my secret mind
out of pure happiness.
THE OGRE
Sweet child,
little girl with well-shaped legs
you cannot touch the thoughts
I put over and under and around you.
This is fortunate for they would
burn you to an ash otherwise.
Your petals would be quite curled up.
This is all beyond you—no doubt,
yet you do feel the brushings
of the fine needles;
the tentative lines of your whole body
prove it to me;
so does your fear of me,
your shyness;
likewise the toy baby cart
that you are pushing—
and besides, mother has begun
to dress your hair in a knot.
These are my excuses.
TO A POOR OLD WOMAN
munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her
You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand
Comforted
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her
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