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thesimplereader's review
2.0
William Carlos Williams invites his reader into the intimate, if not complete, thoughts looming inside of himself. It is utter, beautiful, nonsense.
bluelilyblue's review against another edition
3.0
Not a fan of the format (poetry intermingled with theory / aesthetics), but "As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight" made it all worth it. This and many other excellently phrased intimations to chew on.
casparb's review
4.0
Somewhere between poetry anthology and lecture. Spring and All alternates between Williams' delicate haiku-adjacent poetry, and an exploration of what poetry is, how to write it, and how it comes to differ from prose.
Like Tender Buttons, Spring and All is a phenomenal work of modernism that is today tragically underread. There's such a delightful contrast between the poetry here and that which was being published in Europe in 1923.
An essential of Modernist poetry.
Like Tender Buttons, Spring and All is a phenomenal work of modernism that is today tragically underread. There's such a delightful contrast between the poetry here and that which was being published in Europe in 1923.
An essential of Modernist poetry.
ida_s's review
3.0
Some nice lines that stuck with me, but mostly not quite my cup of tea. My favorite line was "Your sobs soaked through the walls/breaking the hospital to pieces".
estherdb's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the poetry elements, the parts that were more like prose were interesting (these parts read like a manifesto), but quite repetitive in my opinion ("Yes, I get the point already, imagination is important...").