Paterson (Revised Edition) (New Directions Paperback 806 806)

By William Carlos Williams.

Paterson (Revised Edition) (New Directions Paperback 806 806)

Description

Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, WIlliam Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us life" (Denis Donoghue). Paterson is both a place—the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of teh Passaic River" from above the great falls...

ISBN(s)

081121298X, 9780811212984

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