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The Collected Poems, Vol. 2: 1939-1962

by William Carlos Williams · 1967

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So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

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