A River of Words Part 1.wmv

How William Carlos Williams found his way to poetry and medicine is the subject of Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet's lively new biography for children, "A River of Words" (named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book this year). Their nature- loving "Willie Williams" is smart and athletic, and loves to listen to the music of the Passaic River as it goes "slipping and sliding over / the smooth rocks." Alone in his room he writes lines, counting the beats and making the end-words rhyme.

But what preoccupies him are the "pictures in his mind" that don't "fit" regular rhythms or rhymes. He's drawn to "ordinary things — / plums, wheelbarrows and weeds, / fire engines, children and trees," details cleverly integrated in Sweet's multi media illustrations.
Presented and narrated by Susan Miller DuMars in Galway City Library as part of Culture Week 2009

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