Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
- Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
"Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems" is a 1962 book of poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1963 for this book (posthumously).
Pieter Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter (1525-1569) famous for pictures of peasant life. This book opens with the title cycle of ten poems (the last poem is in three parts), each based on a Brueghel picture.
table of contents
* "Pictures from Brueghel"
* "The Exercise"
* "Song" (beauty is a shell...)
* "The Woodthrush"
* "The Polar Bear"
* "The Loving Dexterity"
* "The Chrysanthemum"
* "3 Stances" (I: Elaine; II: Erica; III: Emily)
* "Suzy"
* "Paul"
* "Fragment" (as for him who...)
* "To a Woodpecker"
* "Song" (I'd rather read an account...)
* "The Children"
* "The Painting"
* "The Stone Crock"
* "He Has Beaten about the Bush Long Enough"
* "Iris"
* "Song" (you are forever April...)
* "The Dance"
* "Jersey Lyric"
* "To the Ghost of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings"
* "To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday"
* "Metric Figure"
* "The Intelligent Sheepman and the New Cars"
* "The Italian Garden"
* "Poem" (The rose fades...)
* "A Formal Design"
* "Bird"
* "The Gossips"
* "Exercise No. 2"
* "The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image"
* "The Fruit"
* "Short Poem" (You slapped my face...)
* "Poem" (on getting a card...)
* "To Flossie"
* "Portrait of a Woman at Her Bath"
* "Some Simple Measures in the American Idiom and the Variable Foot" (I:Exercise in Timing; II: Histology; III: Perpetuum Mobile; IV: The Blue Jay; V: The Existentialist's Wife; VI: A Salad for the Soul; VII: Chloe; VIII: The Cocktail Party; IX: The Stolen Peonies)
* "The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo"
* "15 Years Later"
* "The Title"
* "Mounted as an Amazon"
* "The Snow Begins"
* "Calypsos"
* "An Exercise"
* "Three Nahuatl Poems"
* "Sonnet in Search of an Author"
* "The Gift"
* "The Turtle"
* "Sappho, Be Comforted"
* "To My Friend Ezra Pound"
* "Tapiola"
* "Poem" (The plastic surgeon who has...)
* "Heel & Toe to the End"
* "The Rewaking"
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