That which is past is past forever and no power of the imagination can bring it back again . Yet inasmuch as there are many lives being lived in the world , by virtue of sadness and regret we are enabled to partake to some small degree ...
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811202291
Category: Poetry
Page: 388
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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.