William Carlos Williams first spoke to the issue of form shortly after the publication of The Wanderer in 1914 his move to vers libre and didn t stop talking about form until his death in 1963. His poetry shows, decade after decade, persistent formal innovation. Bruce Holsapple s The Birth of the Imagination relates the form, structure, and content of Williams s poetry to demonstrate how his formal concerns bear upon the content, namely, how form testifies to a vision that the style verifies. Tracing the development of Williams s work from Poems in 1909 through...