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Subject: WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS (1883-1963)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were!
Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form....
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares


A LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear bill / when I search the past for you
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


A PHYSICAL MOON BEYOND PATERSON, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: William carlos williams had finished
Last Line: The holiest dish to whiteness passing over...
Subject(s): Birth; Happiness; New Jersey; Rebirth; Snow; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Child Birth; Midwifery; Joy; Delight


AMONG THE ROSES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stat rosa pristina nomine
Last Line: Arid empty dry as dust
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


BICENTENNIAL, by JOHN CIARDI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This official bicentennial arts person programming
Subject(s): American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


BICENTENNIAL, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This official bicentennial arts person programming
Last Line: A wall of buttons blinking data dead
Subject(s): American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


CREDO (1), by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today %dr. William carlos williams
Last Line: And wrote the name of sunlight on a plum
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


DE FERA DORMITA, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Annos tres vesperi, passer venit, sub tecto
Last Line: Capite velato, dormiens in tenebra glauca
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


DEATH NEWS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking at night on asphalt campus
Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Dead, The


DEATH NEWS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking at night on asphalt campus
Last Line: What you wanted to be among the bastards out there
Subject(s): Death; Poetry And Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


DOCTOR BILL WILLIAMS, by ERNEST WALSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was once upon a time a man who lost the dictionary
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


DREAM SONGS: 324. AN ELEGY FOR W.C.W., THE LOVELY MAN, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry in ireland to bill underground
Last Line: Of our trials & our last bride began
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


ENOUGH, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: William carlos williams, I'm sick of your poem
Last Line: So much depends on a wheelbarrow, dumping her into an early grave
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights


FOR W.C. WILLIAMS, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the deepest thrusting
Last Line: Of this, make it of this
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


FOR W.C. WILLIAMS, by HILDA MORLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In all the deepest thrusting
Last Line: & even by indirection %your shadow lengthening toward me, %of this, make it of this
Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs.
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


FOR W.C.W., by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pleasure of the wit sustains
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


FOR WCW, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat in rows listening to your poems
Last Line: Bleating his lines.
Subject(s): Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Burials


FOR WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you came and you talked and you read with your
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


FOR WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you came and you talked and you read with your
Last Line: Drained spittle from his pipe, then %scrammed
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


FRAGMENT TO W.C.W.'S ROMANCE, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hale green song
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you understand the managing
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Southwest; Pacific States


INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you understand the managing
Last Line: Down under the peonies. As it gets darker they disappear
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear bill %when I search the past for you
Last Line: With love and admiration, %kenneth rexroth
Subject(s): Letters; Poetry And Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


MESCALINE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


MESCALINE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rotting ginsberg, I stared in the mirror naked today
Last Line: No point writing when the spirit doth not lead
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


NUANCES OF A THEME BY WILLIAMS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a strange courage
Last Line: Or an old horse
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


NUANCES OF A THEME BY WILLIAMS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a strange courage
Last Line: Be not an intelligence, %like a widow's bird %or an old horse
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


PHONE CALL TO RUTHERFORD, by PAUL BLACKBURN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would be / a mercy if
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


PHONE CALL TO RUTHERFORD, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would be %a mercy if
Last Line: A record in my heart. %goodbye
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


PROFESSION, by JUDITH BISHOP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exhausted of rhetoric %and anger
Last Line: Astringent as loving %that only music immutable
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights


SO MUCH DEPENDS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bill on the way you saw
Last Line: Have seen except for you
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


SONGS OF DEGREES, SELS., by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: William %carlos %williams
Last Line: A kill
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


THE DREAM SONGS: 324. AN ELEGY FOR W.C.W., THE LOVELY MAN, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry in ireland to bill underground
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


THIS FOR THAT, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What will I have for breakfast?
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Plums; Plum Trees


THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by ERICA-LYNN GAMBINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have just %asked you to
Last Line: Driving %me insane
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights


VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next
Last Line: I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor
Subject(s): Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)