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This picture book biography tells of the doctor/poet who kept his childhood observations alive by writing about them. T...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Gorgeous only begins to describe this carefully researched and thoughtfully crafted book. An opening portrait of William Carlos Williams appears opposite an epigraph excerpted from his poem, “Pastoral”: “When I was younger / it was plain to me / I must make something of myself.” It is the perfect introduction to Williams, who managed to write forty-eight books of poetry and prose while maintaining a family practice for more than forty years. Jen Bryant describes Williams as a boy who loved to play baseball and wander in the woods, as a busy high school student who discovered that he “did not feel hu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More