TheCollectedPoemsofWilliamCarlosWilliams

The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams Volume II 1939-1962 William Carlos Williams, 1959. Photograph by Lisa Larsen. Used by permission of Life Magazine © Time Inc. The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams Volume II 1939-1962 Edited by Christopher MacGowan A N E W D I R E C T I O N S B O O K Contents Preface POEMS 1939-1944 1939 The Swaggering Gait The Deceptrices Illegitimate Things The Poet and His Poems Defiance to Cupid Tailpiece The Rocking Woman The Genius The Approaching Hour 1940 A Portrait of the Times Cherry Blossoms at Evening The Ritualists The Graceful Bastion The Sleeping Brute From a Window River Rhyme Sketch for a Portrait of Henry Ford An Informative Object To a Woman Seen Once The New Clouds 1941 For the Poem Paterson 1. Detail (Her milk) 2. Sparrows Among Dry Leaves [first version] 3. St. Valentine 4. Sometimes It Turns Dry and the Leaves Fall before they are Beautiful 5. In Sisterly Fashion 6. Detail (I had a misfortune) 7. Raleigh Was Right [first version] 8. The Unknown 9. Fertile 10. Detail (Hey!) 11. The Th......