William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) wrote twenty-five poetry collections, including Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems, posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He published twenty-seven other works—stories, poems, plays, novels, critical essays, and correspondence—though his main occupation was as a pediatrician. However, writing at night took its toll, and Williams was hospitalized for depression in 1953. “No ideas but in things” summarizes his poetic method, brilliantly illustrated in “The Red Wheelbarrow.”

Summer Song

by William Carlos Williams

Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,—

People on couch

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