20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
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William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems
By William Carlos Williams
302 pages;
New Directions
A New Jersey doctor as well as one of the most inventive poets of the 20th century, Williams wrote deftly about love ("At mere sight of you / my voice falters, my tongue / is broken"), and just about everything else—including plums in the refrigerator.
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011
