American Poets Project

Published by The Library of America, the American Poets Project presents the most significant American poetry, selected and introduced by today’s most distinguished poets and critics, in inexpensive, elegantly designed, and textually authoritative hardover editions.

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William Carlos Williams
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"This little volume [of William Carlos Williams's poems], like others in the series, is misleadingly demure: picked up by a 16-year-old—or a 40-year old—it could lead to a love affair with words..."

—The Providence Journal






Poems from the Women’s Movement Honor Moore, editor	Stephen Crane: Complete Poems Christopher Benfey, editor	Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America’s First Great Popular Songs Ken Emerson, editor




James Agee: Selected Poems Andrew Hudgins, editor American Sonnets: An Anthology David Bromwich, editor American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse John Hollander, editor A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems David Lehman, editor John Berryman: Selected Poems Kevin Young, editor The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks Elizabeth Alexander, editor Stephen Crane: Complete Poems Christopher Benfey, editor Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems Robert Polito, editor Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America’s First Great Popular Songs Ken Emerson, editor Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics Robert Kimball, editor Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems Ron Padgett, editor Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems John Hollander, editor Amy Lowell: Selected Poems Honor Moore, editor Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems Christopher Ricks, editor Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems J.D. McClatchy, editor	Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics Richard Wilbur, editor Poems from the Women’s Movement Honor Moore, editor Poets of the Civil War J. D. McClatchy, editor Poets of World War II Harvey Shapiro, editor Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics Robert Kimball, editor Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems Edward Hirsch, editor Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems Adrienne Rich, editor Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems Paul Berman, editor Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems John Updike, editor Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems Andrew Motion, editor Edith Wharton: Selected Poems Louis Auchincloss, editor Walt Whitman: Selected Poems Harold Bloom, editor John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems Brenda Wineapple, editor William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems Robert Pinsky, editor Yvor Winters: Selected Poems Thom Gunn, editor Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems Charles Bernstein, editor