Imaginations: Kora in Hell / Spring and All / The Descent of Winter / The Great American Novel / A Novelette & Other Prose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811202299)

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.

Author: William Carlos Williams
ISBN-10: 0811202291
ISBN-13: 9780811202299
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/17/1971
Pages: 366
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.21w x 0.85d