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William Carlos Williams

American poet and physician William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, N.J. and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1906), and the University of Leipzig, where he studied pediatrics.

4th of July

by William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

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The ship moves

but its smoke

moves with the wind

faster than the ship

—thick coils of it

through leafy trees

pressing

upon the river

The heat makes

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