Spring and All

Spring and All, a 1923 work by William Carlos Williams, alternates short prose passages with free verse. Williams moves between the two forms to show how the imagination reshapes the world through language, and the statements he makes are forceful, vivid, and hard to pin down on a first reading.

The collection includes several of Williams's best-known poems. Section I opens with the line “By the road to the contagious hospital,” and Section XXII contains “The Red Wheelbarrow,” the poem many readers now associate with his name.

This edition credits Valérie Rouzeau as translator.