Pictures from Brueghel

Summary

The late poems pursue Williams's lifelong project of an American idiom, ranging from ekphrastic responses to Brueghel's paintings to the long, tender "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower." His variable triadic line gives the verse a measured breath that is at once colloquial and capacious. The collection completes the arc of a poet who reshaped what a modern American poem could sound like.