William Carlos Williams Books

It is annoying to read "experts" on writing who apparently lack self-critique as concerns their own writing. As example:

"Kora in Hell: Improvisations (Boston: Four Seas, 1920) is a unique work for its time and place. . ."

Try this:

"Kora in Hell: Improvisations (Boston: Four Seas, 1920) is unique for its time and place."

Now tell us why "place" is relevant, or delete "and place" from the sentence, though it would be better to strike any sentence which includes the word "unique," it being one of the most over- and misused words in the language.

This book was one of the most interesting books i have ever read! A deffinate best seller!

Books for law students get updated at least every five years or so. This book is an update of his first book, this time including "Romer v. Evans" and the St. Patrick's Day cases. When the first edition came out, it was revolutionary. Now, Eskridge, Hunter and many others have published gay legal texts. This new edition still has classic non-legal writings from gay studies. So it's still not just a legal text, but an anthology. It has useful facts in it. Basically, I'm not blown away by this book, but it would be a good thing for gays, both inside and out of the law, to own.

Williams was a prolific writer who ventured into a variety of forms, from the formal poetry of his early craft, to the enjambed pile-up of images he made famous with poems such as "The Red Wheelbarrow", to the drama, fiction, and short stories. He tried in his short stories to create the same objective feel which works so well in his poems. However, the short story is a different form, and the mock reader of the stories does not draw the reader into the story in the way it works whimsically in his poetry. My advice: stick with the poems.

Some years ago, you and I talked about this subkect. Amauta, then, not only was in full posesion of his mental faculties but infirmity had not yet attacked him. He had not been yet to Russia with the proletariat. He had not yet written the seven essays. he was still an absolute idealist. That is why we call this summary "a real fact" because, for that period, it was most surely one of the greatest scandals protagonized by Peruvian intelectuals of the time. Idealism would become lost afterwards and Jose Carlos, like many others, found himself enveloped in the crude reality of Peru. Hola, profesor Stein; soy Pepe . Colaboré con usted sobre el tema de Atusparia en mi época de SINAMOS. ¿Me recuerda?

This is a great book to see how countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico made their structural reforms to fight for a democracy and to be part of the most potential countries in the region. Definitely, this is a book that the congressman in Paraguay should be reading, and every other country in Latin America that wants to follow potential countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico.

This book maybe for wards but not for boards. It is too simple.

This slim book features two series of black-and-white self-portraits by the famous photographer Cindy Sherman: "Bus Riders" and "Murder Mystery People." Sherman took the photographs in 1976 (a year before she started her best-known series "Untitled Film Stills"), but they were printed only in 2000 for an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton, New York.

Each photo is in portrait orientation, about 12x19cm in size on a 15x23cm page. All have the same white background and a similar lighting scheme (based on the shadows cast); all show a foot-activated remote shutter release cable on the wood floor; and all prove that Sherman had some skills with makeup, props, and photography early in her career.

"Bus Riders" consists of 15 untitled photos; using Amazon's "LOOK INSIDE!" feature you can see #1-#6. Sherman portrays various types of people you might find on public transit, like a guy with sunglasses and a briefcase. In all but the last image, Sherman is sitting on a chair; in five photos, she is made up to be black.

"Murder Mystery People" consists of 17 photos such as "the press" (also shown on the cover of the book), "the son (at funeral)," and "the actress (at murder scene)." "LOOK INSIDE!" shows only #17, "the drunken wife." Overall, I thought this series more successful than "Bus Riders" because it shows a greater variety of poses and outfits, because it evokes both laughter and sadness, and because it leads one to imagine a narrative that might fit the photos.

The back cover contains a CD, "The Cindy Sessions." This has 16 musical pieces by "The Glove Compartment, aka Gian Carlo Feleppa" that combine "found sounds" (like spoken snippets from answering machine messages and radio shows) with instrumentals. Examples of the song titles are "Stereophonic Nagging," "Barefoot Sound," and "Finally We Have No Hair." I'm unsure how to classify the music, but the word "weird" comes to mind, and I'm also unsure how to connect any of the pieces with Sherman's work.

Among the problems here: (1) The book design is uninspiring and uninviting. For example, what's with the UPC code on the red back cover? (2) The Foreword by Edsel Williams gives little information or insight. (3) The shots are apparently uncropped, but judicious cropping (especially in "Bus Riders") would have cut out extraneous background, shoes, etc. and focused attention on Sherman. (4) Finally, there is little reason to have this book if you have the catalog "Cindy Sherman" from the Serpentine Gallery (2003, with essay by Rochelle Steiner).*

If you are a Cindy Sherman fan, purchase this and other books by/about Sherman from Amazon.com!

* In specific, the Serpentine Gallery catalog has: (a) most of the photos from this book, although in a smaller size: "Bus Riders" photos 13 & 15, and all the "Murder Mystery People" photos (but with different numbering and in a different order); (b) a much better essay; (c) a composite photo of "Murder Mystery People" not in this book; (d) four close-up photos of Sherman's face from 1975, predating the photos in this book; (e) a lot of photos from more recent series by Sherman; and (f) a biography & bibliography.

I read this book the night before my micro board exam and made well over national average and class average. I recommend you use it to review if you've used it along with your class.

Perez has a similar place in radiation oncology as Devita does in medical oncology. It is a comprehensive coverage of the whole field and provides a radiotherapists eye-view of the world of cancer.
Its strengths are the comprehensive nature of the work, the reasonably complete treatment details as well as expectations for outcome and toxicity. Its weaknesses are the sometimes limited coverage given to other treatment modalities, the disappointing lack of discussion on late toxicity, and the dreadfully boring prose.
For the oncologist interested in a more readable but still solid coverage of the field I would recommend Cox (the broad brush strokes) or Liebel (the nitty gritty too) over this book.