Imaginations: Five Experimental Prose Pieces (A New Directions Paperbook): Kora in Hell / Spring and All / The Descent of Winter / The Great American ... A Novelette & Other Prose (ND Paperbook; Ndp) - Softcover

Williams, William Carlos; Schott, Webster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811202291 ISBN 13: 9780811202299

Publisher: New Directions, 1971

Synopsis

Written between 1920 and 1932, all five were first published in small editions, three of them in France. These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express "the power of the imagination to hold human beings to life and propel them onward.”

The prose-poem improvisations (Kora in Hell) . . . the interweaving of prose and poetry in alternating passages (Spring and All and The Descent of Winter) . . . an antinovel whose subject is the impossibility of writing "The Great American Novel" in America . . . automatic writing (A Novelette) . . . these are the challenges which Williams accepted and brilliantly met in his early work.

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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.

From the Back Cover

These are pivotal and seminal works, books in which a great writer was charting the course he later would follow, experimenting freely, boldly searching for a new kind of prose style to express 'the power of the imagination to hold human beings to life and propel them onward.'

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811202291
• ISBN 13: 9780811202299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366