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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 336 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 081121298X
Release Date: Jan 8, 1993
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a revised edition of the American poet's five book poem about Paterson, New Jersey. MacGowan's appendixes include "Williams's unfinished attempt at a sixth book found after Williams's death and reprinted in the condition in which it was found, . . . {and an} account of the . . . changes from previous editions." (Choice) The first editions of books one through five wereentered in BRD in 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, and 1959.
| | | | From The Publisher
Long recognized as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, William Carlos Williams' Paterson is one man's testament and vision, "a humanist manifesto enacted in five books, a grammar to help us to live" (Denis Donoghue). Paterson is both a place - the New Jersey city near which Williams lived - and a man: the symbolic figure in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of the Passaic River, whose life seemed more and more to resemble my own: the river above the Falls, the catastrophe of the Falls itself, the river below the Falls and the entrance at the end into the great sea." Book Five, published in 1958, when the poet was seventy-five, affirms the triumphant life of the imagination, in spite of age and death. This edition has been completely re-edited by noted Williams scholar Christopher MacGowan of the College of William and Mary and, in addition to presenting the most authoritative text possible, contains invaluable notes identifying Williams' sources and references.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
All five books of Williams's personal and historical poem of his hometown in New Jersey. This edition includes Williams' notes on the sixth, unfinished book
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
"'Paterson' is Whitman's America, grown pathetic and tragic, brutalized by inequality, disorganized by industrialized chaos, and faced with annihilation. This new poet has written a verse with such a combination of brilliance, sympathy, an experience, with such alertness and energy." —Robert Lowell
"Fear is essential to this poet's achievement that only his generousity of spirit, but...a face in the meaning of experienced reality and in the power of art to reveal it." —M. L. Rosenthal
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Poetry, American - General, Poetry, Paterson (N.J.)
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