Biography of William Carlos Williams

"The Use of Force" is a story first published in 1938 as part of a compilation of work by William Carlos Williams. It tells the story of a doctor who is summoned to make a house-call to a family whom he has never met before, and who finds the...

A poet central to the American modernist movement, William Carlos Williams was a Puerto Rican-American poet whose imagistic works operate in a variety of registers: plainspoken, lyrical, and darkly sardonic. In the words of Randall Jarrell,...