Sunday, June 16, 2013

William Carlos Williams and the True American Hero

An early poem by the poet-physician of Rutherford, NJ, gives us a heroic life more familiar and more modern than Longfellow's “Hiawatha,” more pragmatic and driven than Whitman's Super-Ego, says Robert Pinsky--the ordinary and remarkable immigrant story. Read and listen to it at Slate.

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