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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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| For the Poem Paterson [3. St. Valentine]
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by William Carlos Williams |
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A woman's breasts
for beauty
A man's delights
for charm
The rod and cups
of duty
to stave us
from harm!
A woman's eyes
a woman's
thighs and a man's
straight look:
Cities rotted to
pig-sties
will stand up by
that book!
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From The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1988 by Christopher MacGowan. Reprinted with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. |
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