Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination -- a hybrid of
alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic,
energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates
the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams's best-known
poetry, including Section I, which opens, "By the road to the contagious
hospital," and Section XXII, where Williams penned his most famous poem,
"The Red Wheelbarrow." Now, almost 90 years since its first publiction,
New Directions publishes this facsimile of the original 1923 Contact
Press edition, featuring a new introduction by C. D. Wright.