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Spring and All: Facsimile Edition

By: William Carlos Williams
Narrated by: Sean Slater
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A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century" by The New York Times.

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 re-creates the world.

Spring and All contains some of Williams' best-known poetry, including Section I, which opens, "By the road to the contagious hospital," and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow". Now, almost 90 years since its first publication, New Directions publishes this facsimile of the original 1923 Contact Press edition, featuring a new introduction by C. D. Wright.

©2011 New Directions (P)2017 TalkingBook
Classics Poetry United States World Literature

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One of America's great poets William Carlos Williams. I recently say the movie Paterson with Adam Driver, not realizing the inspiration from WCW's life and works. Williams lived in Paterson NJ and wrote a book-length poem called Paterson.
Now that movie has more layers of meaning for me.
Sean Slater does a beautiful job as narrator (even if a few words are mispronounced (Leipzig, conspicuous).
Please more poetry of WCW!

Amazing WCW

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Unexpectedly, I ended up learning a lot about the theory of poetry. Dr. Williams is now my favorite American poet!

Beautiful

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So glad this book is finally in audio. So overdue. Solid reading of a legendary work.

Classic!

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If you're into poetry, you've seen some of the poems in this prose-mixed-with-poetry-book in WCW collections and other anthologies. But listening to, or reading the entirety of Spring & All, is a completely different experience. This was WCW's main "American" response to Eliot's dystopic (and, let's face it, a bit neurotic) The Waste Land.

An Essential Book

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Sean Slater handles the material well. There needs to be more poetry in audio like this. Not over the top and fun to listen to. Get it, poetry fans.

Great reading of a classic work

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Spring and All is important. An important song to & manifesto about the imagination! And timely. Too bad the producers of this audiobook messed it up in some key ways-

1. Mr. Slater’s narration was pleasant enough but there were some egregious misreadings- “motor ears” instead of “motor cars”?!
2. The “chapters” are out of order at several places- especially at the end of the first of the first section. And at least one of the audiobook chapters was truncated.

Please fix the chapter order at least!

Really?

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