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“My tribute to the doctor, novelist, playwright, imagist and poet William Carlos Williams whose rigorous notes strike close to the core of the American ethos because they are scrupulously just. He has two fingers on the American pulse: its beauty, its devastation, its solitude, its reveries, its ignorance…yes. Creative imaginings whose excacting strophes are as simple as they are meaningful. What makes William Carlos Williams remarkable are his snapshots of the American landscape. In essence, he showcased the mood, the temperament of a whole country – the people, their inner turmoil…”
[PATERSON by William Carlos Williams, copyright ©1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958 by William Carlos Williams. Use by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.]Musical Selection for this Podcast
- Shhh/Peaceful, In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
- Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio, Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis
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