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"