A baseball poem by William Carlos Williams captures well the two sides of a crowd.
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Tag Archives: William Carlos Williams
Take Me Out to the Lynch Mob
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Forgive Me for Eating Your Plums
In my experience, no two people respond to William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just to Say” in the same way. More than most short poems, it seems to function as a Rorschach test, with reactions telling us more about the reader than the poem itself.
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Dying Miserably for Lack of Poetry
Today I want to thank Chris Kalb, whose artwork on this blog was installed yesterday. And also to thank Discovering Oz, my son and his wife’s marketing company, which gave me the idea for setting up this website and blog and then helped me carry it out. In the illustration you see before you, the […]
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