[New-Poetry] A poet from Rutherford

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Looking Back: A poet from Rutherford
by Joe Ryan Monday September 17, 2007, 7:46 AM


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TODAY IN HISTORY


On Sept 17, 1883, a couple in Rutherford gave birth to a child with a knack for science and a gift for language. They named him William Carlos Williams. 


After attending local schools, Williams studied in Geneva and Paris before returning to American and enrolling at the private Horace Mann School in The Bronx, where he began tinkering with poetry.


He skipped college and went right to medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he began a lifetime friendship with a young writer named Ezra Pound. 


Williams returned to Rutherford and started work as a pediatrician in 1910. Yet poetry remained his love.

He wrote on prescription pads and went on to create a revolutionary approach to prose and poetry by using simple language, modeled after every day speech patterns. 


Williams eventually won a Pulitzer Prize. He died in his sleep in 1963, at age 80.


'This is Just to Say'
By William Carlos Williams


I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox 


and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast


Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet 
and so cold




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