Spring and All (New Directions Pearls) - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811218910 ISBN 13: 9780811218917

Publisher: New Directions, 2011

Synopsis

A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)

Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination ― a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams’s best-known poetry, including Section I, which opens, “By the road to the contagious hospital,” and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Now, almost 90 years since its first publiction, New Directions publishes this facsimile of the original 1923 Contact Press edition, featuring a new introduction by C. D. Wright.

About this title

About the Author

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.

C. D. Wright’s most recent poetry collection Rising, Falling, Hovering won the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. She is currently the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University.

Review

So remarkable an influence upon the poetry of our time. --Robert Creeley"

It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century s major American poet. "

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0811218910
• ISBN 13: 9780811218917
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96