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Kora in Hell

Williams, W. C.
35 USD
Date
1969
Category
Poetry
Description
Kora in Hell: Improvisations,' William Carlos Williams has said, 'is a unique book, not like any other I have written. It is the book I have enjoyed referring to more than any of the others. It reveals myself to me and perhaps that is why I have kept it to myself...I am indebted to Pound for the title. We had talked about KORA, the Greek parallel of Persephone, the legend of Springtime captured and take to Hades. I thought of myself as Springtime and I felt I was on my way to Hell (but didn't go very far). This is what the Improvisations were trying to say....
Excerpt
Between two contending forces there may at all times arrive that moment when the stress is equal on both sides so that with a great pushing a great stability results giving a picture of perfect rest. And so it may be that once upon the way the end drives back upon the beginning and a stoppage will occur. At such a time the poet shrinks from the doom that is calling him forgetting the delicate rhythms of perfect beauty, preferring in his mind the gross buffetings of good and evil fortune.
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