{"id":13103,"date":"2020-07-16T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=13103"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:34:01","slug":"featured-willaim-carlos-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-willaim-carlos-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: Willaim Carlos Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">William Carlos Williams was a revolutionary figure in American poetry. <\/span>He was a major writer in the modernist movement, helping to create a clear American voice. Although Williams had a successful literary career as a poet, he lived a remarkably conventional life, working as a medical doctor for more than forty years. Early in his career, he briefly became involved in the Imagist movement through his friendships with Ezra Pound and H.D. Williams&#8217;s deep sense of humanity pervaded both his work in medicine and his writings. In 1915 Williams also began to associate with a group of New York artists and writers known as &#8220;The Others&#8221;. Founded by the poet Alfred Kreymborg and the artist Man Ray, this group included Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore and Marcel Duchamp. In his later years, Williams took on the role of elder statesman and mentored and influenced younger poets. He had an especially significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s, including the Beat movement, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the New York School. One of Williams&#8217;s most dynamic relationships was as a mentor to the young Allen Ginsberg. Williams included several of Ginsberg&#8217;s letters in <em>Paterson,<\/em> stating that one of them helped inspire the fifth section of that work. Williams also wrote the introduction to Ginsberg&#8217;s important first book, <em>Howl<\/em>. Williams was a highly acclaimed writer, two of his many honors include the first National Book Award for Poetry in 1950 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1963.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13120\" title=\"William Carlos Williams Signature\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110097-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110097-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110097-1024x223.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110097.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong><span class=\"first3words\"> SIGNED BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS <\/span>on the front free end page. Hard bound, no dust jacket. Wear and some minor foxing to cloth boards. Previous owners notes in pencil to rear free end page, otherwise very good. Considered to be amongst his best work. A scarce signed copy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory # <\/strong>29187<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110098.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13112\" title=\"Journey To Love\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110098-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110098-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110098-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/P1110098.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Journey To Love<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Williams, William Carlos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Title: <strong>Journey To Love<\/strong><br \/>\nPublisher: <strong>Random House<\/strong><br \/>\nPublication Date: <strong>1955<\/strong><br \/>\nBinding: <strong>Hardcover<\/strong><br \/>\nBook Condition: <strong>Very Good<\/strong><br \/>\nDust Jacket Condition: <strong>No Jacket<\/strong><br \/>\nSigned: <strong>Signed by Author(s)<\/strong><br \/>\nEdition: <strong>1st Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Carlos Williams was a revolutionary figure in American poetry. He was a major writer in the modernist movement, helping to create a clear American voice. Although Williams had a successful literary career as a poet, he lived a remarkably conventional life, working as a medical doctor for more than forty years. Early in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13103"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14986,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13103\/revisions\/14986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}