Monday, February 6, 2012

"In his Autobiography (1951), [William Carlos] Williams explains that his goal as a writer is to capture the 'immediacy' of experience: 'It is an identifiable thing, and its characteristic, its chief character is that it is sure, all of a piece and, as I have said, instant and perfect: it comes, it is there, and it vanishes. But I have seen it, clearly. I have seen it.'”

(Adam Kirsch in a New York Review of Books review of three Williams biographies, February 2012)

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