He wrote of this, "I have always associated it with a figure on a soccer field: to him who wants the ball to be passed to him.
"[2] In this early work, Williams is still finding his voice, still experimenting with a variety of styles and approaches, but has eliminated "[r]hyme, conventional meter, figurative language, [and] literary associations.
"[3] The final poem in the original edition was the multi-part “The Wanderer: A Rococo Study,” which had been written before the other pieces.
For The Collected Earlier Poems (New Directions, 1966), it was extracted from the section containing Al Que Quiere!
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