{"product_id":"9780811223591","title":"Imaginations: Kora in Hell \/ Spring and All \/ The Descent of Winter \/ The Great American Novel \/ A Novelette \u0026 Other Prose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImaginations\u003c\/em\u003e makes accessible to the broad reading public live early books by William Carlos Williams, which, except for \u003cem\u003eKora in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, have long been hard to find in their original and complete forms.\u003c\/p\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The prose-poem improvisations (\u003cem\u003eKora in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e) . . . the interweaving of prose and poetry in alternating passages (\u003cem\u003eSpring and All\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Descent of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e) . . . an antinovel whose subject is the impossibility of writing \"The Great American Novel\" in America . . . automatic writing (\u003cem\u003eA Novelette\u003c\/em\u003e) . . . these are the challenges which Williams accepted and brilliantly met in his early work.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129180995824,"sku":"9780811223591","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811223591_p0.jpg?v=1763729521","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811223591","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}