William Carlos Williams (17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine. Williams "worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician," wrote biographer Linda Wagner-Martin. During his long lifetime, Williams excelled both as a poet and a physician.

William Carlos Williams' "Imaginations" collects five complete works of the great american poet. As excursions into experimental literature these five examples cannot be beat. The compelling and lucid examinations of the working imagination by one of the best acrobats of the imagination. All originally published in small editions and finally available again as they were before being hacked up into selected works and anthologies. "Spring and All" contains many of William's best-loved poems as they appeared with the original experimental prose that was in itself a manifesto of imagination. "The Descent of Winter" is poetry, fiction, criticism and personal journal all in one and is exquisitely beautiful and deeply insightful as a portrait of an unusually gifted artist and man.