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| Title | : | Paterson |
| Author | : | William Carlos Williams |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 311 pages |
| Published | : | 1992 by New Directions (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Literature. American. 20th Century. The United States Of America. Fiction. Classics |
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Paterson is both a place—the New Jersey city 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" from above the great falls to its entrance into the sea. The unexpected Book Five, published in 1958, affirms the triumphant life of the imagination, in spite of age and death. This revised edition has been meticulously re-edited by Christopher MacGowan, who has supplied a wealth of notes and explanatory material.Point Books In Favor Of Paterson
| Original Title: | Paterson |
| ISBN: | 081121298X (ISBN13: 9780811212984) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Paterson, New Jersey(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Poetry (1950) |
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FRom BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:American poet William Carlos Williams's poly-vocal epic poem 'Paterson' is a portrait of his favoured city in New Jersey where he worked as a doctor. Michael Symmons Roberts presents a portrait of the same city today in reportage and documentary alongside a fictional drama which responds to events described in Williams's poem.Roberts travels to New Jersey to meet William Carlos Williams's family, friends, academics and community figures to explore Paterson and theTruly a sign of disintegration and the triumph of incoherence in literary art. "Paterson" is a horrifying excuse for other people to pass along similar dumpster-style poetry as legitimate. I had to read this for a class after reading the "Iliad," "Odyssey," "Aeneid," and "Divine Comedy." After being filled with such artistic beauty, I was given the worst heaving gag sensation.
Two kinds of American books: house books (Walden), and river books (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers). One teaches you how to build a house, the other teaches you how to destroy the house you built. Patterson has got to be one of the great river books.
You lethargic, waiting upon me,waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beautyShaken.
No ideas but in things.But, creature of the weather, Idon't want to go any faster thanI have to go to win.Well friends, this is a complicated work. It isn't that it has a range of registers from the mundane to the pretentious. It isn't that it is a vast project itself-to set a poem to the pulse of a country, a poem that is a man, a city, a man and a city as one. And it isn't just that WCW himself is so present in the poem, a not uncontroversial person himself, which obligates one to look at his
William Carlos Williams, Paterson (New Directions, 1963)To hear the staff at New Directions tell it, Paterson is the be-all and end-all of the American long poem; there is no work being done today that is not influenced in some way by Williams' milestone of American verse. And there may be some truth in that statement, but it neglects to address the question of whether Paterson is, in fact, a good poem; after all, the album title tells us ten million Elvis fans can't be wrong. Well, guess what,
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