If there is a single book that strikes me as representing the apotheosis of modernist writing, it is Spring and All.

Ron Silliman

A beacon of modernism, Spring and All makes its freestanding return in facsimile edition of the original manuscript.

Spring and All

Poetry by William Carlos Williams

Voted by The New York Times as one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century, Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination – a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that crystalizes in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language recreates 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” (now commonly known by the title “Spring and All”), and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Although Spring and All has been always available in collected works such as Imaginations and Collected Poems: Volume I, this stand-alone facsimile edition makes it shine as the individual book William Carlos Williams intended it to be.

Paperback(published Jul, 13 2011)

ISBN
9780811218917
Price US
12.95
Price CN
15
Trim Size
4.5x7
Page Count
112

Ebook(published Jul, 13 2011)

ISBN
9780811223218
Page Count
112
Portrait of William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

One of the greatest poets of the 20th Century, William Carlos Williams is “The cornerstone of New Directions”

If there is a single book that strikes me as representing the apotheosis of modernist writing, it is Spring and All.

Ron Silliman

So remarkable an influence upon the poetry of our time.

Robert Creeley