William Carlos Williams 
Al Que Quiere! 

The centennial edition of William Carlos Williams’s early ground-breaking volume, containing some of his best-loved poems

Published in 1917 by The Four Seas Press,
Al Que Quiere! was William Carlos Williams’s breakthrough book and contains some of his best-loved poems (“Tract, ” “Apology, ” “El Hombre, ” “Danse Russe, ” “January Morning, ” and “Smell!”), as well as a Whitmanesque concluding long poem, “The Wanderer, ” that anticipates his epic masterpiece
Paterson.
Al Que Quiere! is the culmination of an experimental period for Williams that included his translations from Spanish. The Spanish epigraph of
Al Que Quiere! is from the short story “El hombre que parecía un caballo” (“The Man Who Resembled a Horse”), by the Guatemalan author Rafael Arévalo Martínez. This centennial edition contains Williams’s translation of the story, as well as his commentary from a book of conversations,  
I Wanted to Write a Poem, on the individual poems of 
Al Que Quiere!

About the author

Jonathan Cohen is a poet, translator, and essayist. He is the editor and translator of Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, by Ernesto Cardenal, and the editor of By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916-1959, by William Carlos Williams (both published by New Directions).