Imaginations

Kora in Hell / Spring and All / The Descent of Winter / The Great American Novel / A Novelette & Other Prose

William Carlos Williams author Webster Schott editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published:1st Feb '71

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Imaginations cover

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.

ISBN: 9780811202299

Dimensions: 203mm x 132mm x 28mm

Weight: 409g

366 pages