By Word of Mouth
Williams, William Carlos / Cohen, Jonathan![By Word of Mouth](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/111/11143725/CHSBZCOP0311143725.jpg)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) produced a startling number of translations of both Spanish and Latin American poetry starting during WWI and continuing through the late fifties. Williams grew up in a Spanish-speaking home and sometimes described himself as half-Spanish. His mother was Puerto Rican and his father spoke Spanish fluently. "Spanish is not, in the sense to which I refer, a literary language, " Williams wrote in his Autobiograp...