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Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems (1994)

Asphodel, that greeny flower & other love poems (1994)

Poetry

William Carlos Williams

Year: 1994
Authors: William Carlos Williams
Print type: BOOK

Description:

A dozen poems on love by a New Jersey obstetrician (1883-1963) who often wrote them on office prescription pads. In the title poem, first published when he was 72, he wrote: "What power has love but forgiveness? / In other words / by its intervention / what has been done / can be undone."