pickI love the playfulness, the freedom, and the surety of self Williams has.
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Spring and All (Facsimile Edition) | 
pickI love the playfulness, the freedom, and the surety of self Williams has.
So most of my life has been lived in hell -- a hell of repression lit by flashes of inspiration, when a poem such as this or that would appear
The reader knows himself as he was twenty years ago and he has also in mind a vision of what he would be, some day. Oh, some day !
pickOriginally published in 1923, this collection of poetry/flash fiction/prose explores the natural world, inspiration and the nature of creativity, and the changing forms of art. SPRING AND ALL influenced, and was influenced by, modernism. It challenged the previous conventions of art.
This photo is from the garden of the Demuth Museum in Lancaster, PA - converted home of modernist painter Charles Demuth. Williams dedicated SPRING AND ALL to him.
