William Carlos Williams

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.

William Carlos Williams

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.

Books by William Carlos Williams

  • William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

    William Carlos Williams, James Laughlin, Hugh Witemeyer

    Hardback, 1990

    This volume chronicles the correspondence between William Carlos Williams, a Pullitzer Prize-winning American poet, and his publisher, James Laughlin, the founder of "New Directions".
  • The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

    William Carlos Williams

    Paperback, 1967

  • The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

    William Carlos Williams

    E Book, 2017

  • The Doctor Stories

    William Carlos Williams, William Eric Williams, Atul Gawande

    Paperback, 2018

    A new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as Chekhov’s.
  • The Doctor Stories

    William Carlos Williams, William Eric Williams, Atul Gawande

    E Book, 2018

    A new edition of one of the best books ever written about being a doctor: writing as aware and memorable as Chekhov’s.
  • By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959

    William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Cohen, Julio Marzán

    Bilingual Edition, Paperback, 2011

    The first collection of translations of Spanish and Latin American poetry by William Carlos Williams, containing many previously unknown poems.
  • Spring and All

    William Carlos Williams, C. D. Wright

    Facsimile Edition, Paperback, 2011

    A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)
  • Pictures from Brueghel: Pulitzer Prize, Poetry

    William Carlos Williams

    Paperback, 1967

    This collection makes available work of one of our greatest American poets in the last decade of his life. The first section,Pictures from Brueghel, contains previously uncollected short poems,...
  • Selected Poems

    William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson

    Paperback, 1985

    With the publication of this book, Charles Tomlinson's edition of Williams's Selected Poems, New Directions has introduced a gathering larger and more comprehensive than the original 1963 edition....
  • Al Que Quiere!

    William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Cohen

    Paperback, 2017

    The centennial edition of William Carlos Williams’s early ground-breaking volume, containing some of his best-loved poems