RUTHERFORD - The new postage stamp honoring William Carlos Williams was denounced Saturday in a rite at his hometown post office that established him both as a of the many successful poets of the 20th century and for his local contributions as a doctor and neighbor.
About 70 people collected on a summerlike sunrise in front of the borough’s post office to flog off the initial day of the sale of the 45-cent first-class Forever stamp - a of a array of tributes in assorted tools of the nation honoring 10 of the nation’s many sining poets of the final century.
During the 40-minute program, open officials and historians talked about the local son’s elementary essay type and how his work frequently highlighted the unusual in the commonplace.
Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., D- Paterson , reflected on a few Williams poems he used to read whilst in college - lyrics that communicate the blast H2O of his hometown’s Great Falls.
"Every time we go to the Falls of Paterson , we regard of the beauty of The Falls, the work of The Falls, the power that William Carlos Williams wrote about over and over," Pascrell mentioned "Every time you read it, you find something new. He talked about so many cities and what they meant to people. You could feel that in that poem."
Historian Bill Neumann, who was instrumental lobbying the postal service to print the memorial mirror said, "He was a producer that was desirous by this town. His participation is here today."
Williams, wh! o died i n 1963 at age 79, won many well read awards, inclusive the initial National Book Award for poetry, the Bollingen Prize and a Pulitzer Prize.
Allen Ginsburg and the Beat poets of the 1950s and 1960s regarded him as a many critical mentor.
He was inducted in to the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2009.
The Rutherford home he common with his wife, Florence Herman, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.