Al Que Quiere!
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811226662 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This centennial edition contains Williams’s translation of the story (made with the help of his father), as well as a fascinating chapter from a book of conversations with Williams, I Wanted to Write a Poem, in which he comments on the individual poems.. Al Que Quiere! is the culmination of an experimental period for Williams that included his translations from Spanish. The Spanish epigraph of Al Que Quiere! is from the short story “El hombre que pareci´a un caballo” (“The Man Who Resembled a Horse”) by the Guatemalan author Rafael Are´valo Marti´nez.
“For all his roughness there remains with me the conviction that there is nothing meaningless in his book, Al Que Quiere!, not a line.” - Ezra Pound“It seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do.” - The New York Review of Books“It is ever more apparent that Williams is this century’s major American poet.” - The Chicago Tribune
He is the editor and translator of Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, by Ernesto Cardenal, and the editor of By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, by William Carlos Williams (both published by New Directions). William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), author of Paterson and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel, is widely considered one of the greatest poe