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This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation

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The first time I went to New York, or maybe the second, I read for the Segue series in the Zinc Bar: low stage, red velvet curtains—a windowless sexual basement,... William Carlos Williams was born the first of two sons of an English father and a Puerto Rican mother of French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish ancestry, and he grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He was a medical doctor, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. With...

Share 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 Copyright Credit: William Carlos Williams,''This Is Just to Say'' from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939 , copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Source: The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991)

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