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William Carlos Williams

Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright William Carlos Williams is often said to have been one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems about Eating
		A Wicker Basket by Robert Creeley

		Apples by Grace Schulman

		Breakfast by Minnie Bruce Pratt

		Dead Horse by Thomas Lux

		Dream In Which I Meet Myself by Lynn Emanuel

		Eating Poetry by Mark Strand

		Eating The Bones by Ellen Bass

		Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

		Egg by Aleš Šteger

		Man Eating by Jane Kenyon

		The Book of the Dead Man (Food) by Marvin Bell

		Woman on Twenty-Second Eating Berries by Stanley Plumly

		Poems about Fruit
		Tender Buttons [Apple] by Gertrude Stein, read by Ann Lauterbach

		A Short History of the Apple by Dorianne Laux

		An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti

		Apples by Grace Schulman

		Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm by Carl Phillips

		Basket of Figs by Ellen Bass

		Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

		Orchard by H. D.

		Pear Tree by H. D.

		Persimmons by Li-Young Lee

		Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Summary Wednesday by Matthew Pennock

		The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland

		The Tropics of New York by Claude McKay

		White Apples by Donald Hall

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To a Poor Old Woman
by William Carlos Williams

munching a plum on the street a paper bag of them in her hand They taste good to her They taste good to her. They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out in her hand Comforted a solace of ripe plums seeming to fill the air They taste good to her

From Collected Poems: 1939-1962, Volume II by William Carlos Williams, published by New Directions Publishing Corp. © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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