Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams


Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)

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Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was born in Puerto Rico. He attended public school in Rutherford until 1897, then was sent to study at Château de Lancy near Geneva, Switzerland, the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, France, for two years and Horace Mann School in New York City. Then, in 1902, he entered the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. During his time at Penn, Williams befriended Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle (best known as H.D.) and the painter Charles Demuth. These friendships supported his growing passion for poetry. He received his M.D. in 1906 and spent the next four years in internships in New York City and in travel and postgraduate studies abroad (e.g., at the University of Leipzig where he studied pediatrics). He returned to Rutherford in 1910 and began his medical practice, which lasted until 1951. Ironically, most of his patients knew little if anything of his writings; instead they viewed him as a doctor who helped deliver over 2,000 of their children into the world.
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Chapters

Apology 0:54 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Appeal 0:59 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Ballet 1:36 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Canthara 0:56 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Chicory and Daisies 1:10 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Conquest 1:08 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Danse Russe 1:15 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Dawn 1:12 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Dedication for a Plot of Ground 2:17 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Foreign 1:26 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Good Night 1:38 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Gulls 2:06 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Hero 0:52 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
El Hombre 0:33 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
In Harbor 1:45 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Invitation (You who had the sense) 1:08 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Keller Gegen Dom 1:25 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Liberdad! Igualdad! Fraternidad! 1:05 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Love Song (Daisies are broken) 0:59 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Love Song (I lie here thinking of you) 1:04 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Love Song (Sweep the house clean) 0:48 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
M. B. 1:04 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Metric Figure (There is a bird in the poplars) 0:49 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Mujer 0:46 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Ogre, The 1:13 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Pastoral (The little sparrows) 1:13 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Pastoral (When I was younger) 1:03 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Portrait in Greys, A 1:20 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Portrait of a Woman in Bed 2:03 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart 1:11 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Prelude, A 0:58 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Promenade 3:00 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Riposte 0:53 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Smell! 1:18 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Spring Strains 2:01 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Summer Song (Wanderer moon) 0:52 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Sympathetic Portrait of a Child 1:21 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
To a Solitary Disciple 1:36 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Trees 1:22 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Virtue 1:44 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Winter Sunset 0:59 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Woman Walking 1:29 Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)