"Something urgent I have to say to you" : the life and works of William Carlos Williams / Herbert Leibowitz.

Life and works of William Carlos Williams

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

xxix, 496 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Poetry as biographical evidence -- Roots and branches of the family tree -- "Halfway to hell" -- Youthful fumblings -- Many loves -- A risqué liaison with the fabulous baroness -- Adventures in the skin trade -- Experimental breakthroughs -- The "strange phosphorus" of American history -- Revisiting the seductions of Europe -- Confronting the Great Depression -- New directions in a tumultuous decade -- Poetry, the mistress, and medicine, the wife -- The poet in a time of war -- The magnificent torso: Paterson -- The lion in winter.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-474) and index.