Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

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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.

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  • "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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