{"product_id":"william-carlos-williams-spring-and-all","title":"William Carlos Williams. Spring and All.","description":"\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams’s answer to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “The Waste Land”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bba43948-7fff-6ddf-3c7c-eebab60e28d9\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eParis: Contact Publishing Co., 1923.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e16mo.; colophon states printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantiere; publisher's gray-blue wrappers in protective mylar. In a custom slipcase with black morocco over marbled boards stamped in gilt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of 300 copies\u003c\/strong\u003e, the full edition; signed at publication by Williams on the front free endpaper. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a hybrid work consisting of alternating sections of prose and free verse. It might best be understood as a manifesto of the imagination. The prose passages are a dramatic, energetic and often cryptic series of statements about the ways in which language can be renewed in such a way that it does not describe the world but recreates it. These passages are interspersed with poems that demonstrate this recreation in both their form and content. The two most famous sections of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are the poems I, known by the title “Spring and All,” and XXII, perhaps Williams’s most famous poem, now anthologized as “The Red Wheelbarrow.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccording to Williams biographer James E. Breslin, T. S. Eliot's poem \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhich appeared in 1922, was a major influence on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In his\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Autobiography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Williams later wrote, “I felt at once that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e had set me back twenty years and I'm sure it did. Critically, Eliot returned us to the classroom just at the moment when I felt we were on a point to escape to matters much closer to the essence of a new art form itself—rooted in the locality which should give it fruit.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e viewed the same post–World War I landscape as Eliot but interpreted it differently. Williams “saw his poetic task was to affirm the self-reliant, sympathetic consciousness of Whitman in a broken industrialized world,” Williams critic Donald A. Stauffer noted. “But unlike Eliot, who responded negatively to the harsh realities of this world, Williams saw his task as breaking through restrictions and generating new growth.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was printed in an edition of 300 by Maurice Darantière. Darantière was based in Dijon, France, and had printed the first edition of James Joyce’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUlysses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1922, as well as a range of other significant modernist works. Williams himself said the book drew little attention at the time of publication. Williams biographer Paul Mariani notes: “most of the copies that were sent to America were simply confiscated by American customs officials as foreign stuff and therefore probably salacious and destructive of American morals. In effect, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e all but disappeared as a cohesive text until its republication nearly ten years after Williams’s death.” Some sources indicate that half of the original print run was confiscated by the U.S. Post Office. Until July 2011, when New Directions issued a facsimile edition, it was never again published as a free-standing book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glenn Horowitz Bookseller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47760831152302,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/6325\/1886\/files\/Springandall.jpg?v=1776707289","url":"https:\/\/shop.glennhorowitz.com\/products\/william-carlos-williams-spring-and-all","provider":"Glenn Horowitz Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}