Paterson (poem) caught Williams' attention for its use, with a technical skill that seemed to rival Pound's in "The Cantos", of such diverse and seemingly prosaic materials as notes from a congressional investigation, an X-ray report and a physician's testimony on cross-examination. He wrote to fellow poet Louis Zukofsky, "I've begun to think about poetic form again. So much has to be thought out and written out there before we can have any solid criticism and consequently well-grounded work here." In 1944, Williams read a poem by Byron Vazakas in "Partisan Review" that would help lead him to solutions in form and
The Panther (poem) der Glieder angespannte Stille –" "und hört im Herzen auf zu sein." </poem> English <poem> "His gaze against the sweeping of the bars" "has grown so weary, it can hold no more." "To him, there seem to be a thousand bars" "and back behind those thousand bars no world." "The soft the supple step and sturdy pace," "that in the smallest of all circles turns," "moves like a dance of strength around a core" "in which a mighty will is standing stunned." "Only at times the pupil’s curtain slides" "up soundlessly — . An image enters then," "goes through the