It was the William Carlos Williams Collected Poems that got my vote the other day for my next major read-through and I'm now up to Al Que Quiere, originally published in 1917, by which point his authentic voice is emerging from the shadows of Ezra Pound. It's a funny thing though, even when he sounds most like EP in the very early poems, I still find him more affable somehow.
Must say, I've had the two volumes of the Collected for a while now, and done a lot of dipping in, but I'd never quite registered how good the accompanying notes are. WCW's comments on the early stuff, 1909 - 1913, actually make the poems, weak as some are, worth reading.
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