This poet declared, "The pure products of America go crazy" in a poem about a materialist with"ungainly hips and flopping breasts," "To Elsie."
This poet declared, "The pure products of America go crazy" in a poem about a materialist with"ungainly hips and flopping breasts," "To Elsie." Responding to T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland," he describedthe "stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf" that grows up in the muddy terrain "by the road to the contagioushospital." This poet of Spring and All befriended Ezra Pound at Pennsylvania Medical School and coinedthe maxim "no ideas but in things." His works include a lengthy poem about a town in New Jersey and ashorter poem describing an object "glazed with rain water beside the white chickens." For 10 points, namethis American modernist poet who wrote Paterson and "The Red Wheelbarrow."
This poet declared, "The pure products of America go crazy" in a poem about a materialist with"ungainly hips and flopping breasts," "To Elsie."
William Carlos Williams