Hailed 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 coalesce 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 with its famous opening, "By the road to the contagious hospital," and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most renowned poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow."This new edition includes a facsimile of the original interior as well as an introduction by the poet C.D. Wright:"With Spring and All, poetry's backward advance came to the crossroads. The good doctor Williams discharged the symbolic heap of myth and metaphor; adjusted his focal length to light up cast-off, common things; dug his heels into American dirt; and passed directly into the moment. Ah, SPRING."
A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)
A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)