Passwords: Herbert Leibowitz on William Carlos Williams

Editor and critic Herbert Leibowitz, author of “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams, discusses the great doctor’s oeuvre, from Spring and All to Paterson.

Herbert Leibowitz is the Publisher and Founding Editor of the literary magazine Parnassus: Poetry in Review. His publications include “Something Urgent I Have to Say to You”: The Life and Work of William Carlos Williams (2011), Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography (1991), and Hart Crane: An Introduction to the Poetry (1968). He provides the introduction for William Carlos Williams’ Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems (New Directions, 1994). He is Professor Emeritus at City University of New York Graduate Center.