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Hear Williams read "To Elsie" and find a concise Williams biography, a connection to Allen Ginsberg sites, and more at the Academy of American Poets' site on Williams. University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center Read the six Williams poems, including "Portrait of a Lady" and "Willow Poem," featured in the August 1920 issue of The Dial. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University "I see bare branches laden with snow." For an interesting exhibition on the influence of Chinese art and poetry on Williams and other writers, visit the online version of "Petals on a Wet Black Bough: American Modernist Writers and the Orient," presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University. William Carlos Williams: the Poetry/Art Connection The Armory Show of 1913 and the New York avant-garde scene fascinated Williams. Read an analysis of the effect of post-impressionist art on Williams's work by John Slatin of the University of Texas at Austin. The Atlantic Monthly: "Can Poetry Matter?" "It is...time to restore a vulgar vitality to poetry...," says Dana Gioia in "Can Poetry Matter?" from The Atlantic Monthly (May 1991). Gioia says that a passage from Williams's "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" provides a possible starting point for poets to persuade readers that poetry still matters. | ||||
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