USA: Poetry Episode William Carlos Williams 

Can anything be cooler than this rare find? The home workplace aging son and aged wife of mankind's most primal poet?

This video demonstrates the essence of Williams. He was simple and didn't sugar coat things. It would be great to have a cup of coffee in his simple kitchen with him...

My favorite poem is the one about the plums he ate . It sounds like a note he left on the refrigerator door , which is probably what it was . It's lovely , so short , but it tells it all . I want to read his autobiography .

Thank you for posting this - I would never have seen it otherwise, and it was a true joy.

Lovely. A voice and pictures accompany me. Everything broken, healed, becoming, washing away.

A fine poet and a great man.

Benevolent Medicine!!!where has IT all Gone now!!!Massive Thanks for sharing this Sweetness yet in Hardness but Still in Conviction.

Black and white and lights, shadows silhouettes and Poetry...Thanks.

Arthur Hill narrates. A fine documentary. Flossie Williams wrote the note that inspired Williams poem, "This is Just to Say." A charming poem but not as important as "The Red Wheelbarrow," which speaks volumes about Wiliiams' canon: "No idea but in things." He asks us in the poem to see the thing that is there and the nothing that is not there (Wallace Stevens). Williams was an observer. His poems were about the stuff of his observations during his life.

In his autobiography, Wiliams said that the little magazine "Others", which began in the woods of nearby Grantwood NJ, "saved my life as a writer.” Published in the first issue of 1915 was this by Orrick Johns. Blue undershirts Upon a line, It is not necessary to say to you Anything about it- What they do, What they might do…blue undershirts. This is a parody of free verse inspired by poem written by the founder of Others, Alfred Kreymborg. The pantaloons are dancing, dancing through the night, pure white pantaloons, underneath the moon, on a jolly wash line, skipping from my room, over to Miranda, who washed them this noon. Compare these to “The Red Wheelbarrow,” or “XXI” from his 1923 collection, Spring and All. so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens “XXI” is worlds away from the previous two. It is so visual that it is most often discussed as if it is an actual image. In popular articles, however, Others is completely ignored in favor of Williams’s interest in the photography of Alfred Steiglitz and the paintings of Marcel Duchamp and Charles Demuth. To preserve this narrative that reinforces the cherished trope of the lone genius with a brilliant new insight inspired by a completely different approach, almost any discussion of “XXI” being rooted in poetry, and in the little magazine, Others, takes some real digging. Yet here we see the evolutionary pathway. White pantaloons. Blue undershirts. Red wheelbarrow. Three colors, three commonplace scenes in a yard. In his autobiography thirty-six years later, “Blue Undershirts” is the only poem Williams mentions by name out of hundreds of works in Others that passed under his editor’s eye while he was with the magazine. Blue undershirts Upon a line so much depends upon a red wheel...

thanks for uploading these they are great

I love this!💛 Oh, what a time to be alive when Drs. made house calls! So simple and sweet and honest! 💛

Thank you for sharing this gem!!!

I love it again Before Now And later Forever.

This is a gem, but unwatchable because of headache-inducing jumpiness. Can it be corrected and reloaded?

I love him

Useful footage of WCW but it should be made clear at the beginning (not the end) that the voice reading the poems and letters is a Ralph Hill not WCW himself.

He sounds just like his dad!

such a good man

My research this years, about the Williams, the daily live and the sense of the place in his poem 😐😐😐, plz i need help

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭

no footage???

So much depends

No!! COME BACK

Name of the poem at 6:04?

28:42 sound like old voice

And another interpretation from Adam Driver: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BJIzjKv_7rc.html (of this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-es7YEqtIQSQ.html )

A Life as mine....mmm