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William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” Reading for the National Council of Teachers of English and Columbia University Press Contemporary Poets series. January 9, 1942
Williams served as the major influence on Robert Creeley, and he wrote elequently and often about music in the context of his belief in a distinct American language. The care with the linebreaks can be seen in Creeley’s work, as in “I Know a Man.”
The Red Wheelbarrow (written 1923)
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
