PEDRO ESPINOSA (1578 - 1650) was a Golden Age Spanish poet and fiction writer whose works include a famed 1605 anthology of contemporary poets called Las flores de poetas ilustres de España ("Flowers of Spain's Illustrious Poets"). WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883 - 1963) is widely recognized as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century and as an influential founder of literary modernism. In addition to poetry, he authored works of fiction, criticism, drama, and translation. Among his most celebrated books are Spring and All, In the American Grain, Paterson, and Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems for which he posthumously received the Pulitzer Prize. All told, Williams published some twenty books of poetry as well as seventeen books of prose. JONATHAN COHEN is an award-winning translator of Latin American poetry and scholar of inter-American literature. He is the compiler and editor of William Carlos Williams's By Word of Mouth: Poems from the Spanish, 1916 - 1959 and editor of the centennial edition of his Al Que Quiere!, both published by New Directions.