Paterson The Russian Version The Men are a riddle

The Men are a riddle

and stories that ricochet off convention in a visionary and daring response to personal and national trauma

Begun in 1963 and only published in its final form in 1984

and take the assault course of form by cranking out the odd villanelle

the context of shibari

Paterson The Russian Version The Men are a riddleWilliam Carlos Williams Paterson is both a place the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the course of teh Passaic River" from above the great falls to its entrance into the sea. The unexpected Book Five, published in 1958, affirms the triumphant