Translation of Ricardo Cazares.

James Laughlin wrote this and other autobiographical sketches at home, including three in the morning and the time of sunrise, when the cook brought him a breakfast of tea and blueberry muffins. The text resists classification. It was written in what Laughlin called the American plain style, following a sort of narrative free verse he learned from William Carlos Williams and he cut according to their visual extension on the page. By then, Laughlin, son of a wealthy family of steelworkers of Pennsylania, was not only a great poet and prose writer, but had already become the most influential editor of the twentieth century in the United States. Following the advice of Ezra Pound, the young publisher Laughlin founded New Directions. It published the Pound itself and many of the poets, essayists and decisive storytellers of our time, men and women who maintained relations and whose works helped spread. But it was definitely the link to William Carlos Williams to score more deeply to Laughlin, and that led him to have the courage to write in his own style. Work on Williams fixed indelible moments in memory. The family life of the country doctor scoring poems prescription notepads while driving home from his patients. The inexhaustible supplies of energy that allowed him to write his great works in the morning, while their children cooed to the rhythm of the keys of his typewriter. His close and long relationship with Flossie, the woman who bore his love affairs and cared for him until his last days, when strokes his energy waned, but not its lucidity. Writing and editing difficulties his long poem Paterson. The closeness between friends, poet, editor, and painful disagreement, are outlining the ways that these men together, forging one of the most fruitful for literature of our time friendships.