{"product_id":"imaginations-kora-in-hell-spring-and-all-the-descent-of-winter-the-great-american-novel-a-novelette-other-prose-9780811202299","title":"Imaginations: Kora in Hell \/ Spring and All \/ The Descent of Winter \/ The Great American Novel \/ A Novelette \u0026 Other Prose","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Carlos Williams | Webster Schott\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47592383578263,"sku":"9780811202299","price":2712.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780811202299.webp?v=1774977522","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/imaginations-kora-in-hell-spring-and-all-the-descent-of-winter-the-great-american-novel-a-novelette-other-prose-9780811202299","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}