About this title: Williams's five-volume saga, which takes as its subject the supremely ordinary industrial city of Peterson, New Jersey, expresses the poet's complex--and not always optimistic--view of American life in the mid-20th century.
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Edition: 6th
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good+ As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, corner bumps, edgewear to top edge of front cover, large(long) gift inscription on ffep, handling creases to front cover, covers and page edges are age toning, small stains to right edge of book and rear cover, and other light to moderate shopwear. Text is clean. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9780811202336ISBN:081120233X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Oversized softcover trade paperback, Very Good Condition, 284 pages, (L2). read more
Description: Williams, William Carlos., A New Directions Paperbook, nd, c1963, 17th printing, illus. soft cover, fine, 246 pp, Sm 8vo, 'Paterson is a long poem in four parts...' read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1992-11
ISBN-13:9780811212250ISBN:0811212254
Description: Good. Ex library copy. May have a clear plastic book cover, library stamps, catalog numbers, stickers or other markings. Good clean condition. All pages are clean. Cover/book edges have some wear. Your satisfaction is guaranteed! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1963-01
ISBN-13:9780811202336ISBN:081120233X
Description: Excellent Conditon. Excellent Condition, text is clean/unmarked, tight binding, minor edge/cover wear, from a private collection. read more
Edition: EIGHT PRINTING
Binding: TRADE PAPERBACK
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1963-01
ISBN-13:9780811202336ISBN:081120233X
Description: Used; Good. 246 pages clean/unmarked, tight binding, minor edge/cover wear, Black spine of wrappers has white lettering. New Directions Paperback No. 152. some tanning to page edges books one through six. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9780811202336ISBN:081120233X
Description: Very Good+ 081120233X. 287 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Light front hinge crease. No spine creases. Just a bit of shelf rub at edges. Solid, clean. One of the masterpieces of modern American literature, Williams' long poem, Paterson, originally published in five separate books between 1946 and 1958, is now made available in complete, one-volume paperbound form. read more
"I've only just come back to this after college this month (in order to teach it: I always get closer to a book when I have to teach it since I'm forced to pay attention and make my thoughts clear to myself) and wowsers: the concept of man-city metaphor, describing one by means of the other, is nothing new but WCW does something else: the man IS the city and vice versa. The poem switches back and forth mid-phrase, mid-word, so that it's not a metaphor but a character dreaming a city dreaming its dreamer.
If experimental poetry invents new realities or new ways of conceiving of what we perceive, then WCW is still the most oneiromantic (hey, Rooney) poet out there."
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