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9/17/2015

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Happy birthday to William Carlos Williams, an American poet who not only advanced modernism and imagism through his work but also practiced medicine as a family doctor in New Jersey. 

He served as a mentor to Allen Ginsburg, which may come as a surprise when thinking about his short, direct, clear as a bell poems such as "The Red Wheelbarrow," but begins to gel a bit more when considering Williams' experimental hybrid of prose and free verse in "Spring and All," which has been described as a manifesto of the imagination. 

Dawn
Ecstatic bird songs pound 
the hollow vastness of the sky 
with metallic clinkings -- 
beating color up into it 
at a far edge, --beating it, beating it 
with rising, triumphant ardor, -- 
stirring it into warmth, 
quickening in it a spreading change, -- 
bursting wildly against it as 
dividing the horizon, a heavy sun 
lifts himself -- is lifted -- 
bit by bit above the edge 
of things, -- runs free at last 
out into the open --! lumbering 
glorified in full release upward -- 
songs cease.

-- William Carlos Williams
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