Finding joy in a year of seismic shifts

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William Carlos Williams is perhaps best known for the red wheelbarrow on which so much depends, but “Spring and All” — the 1923 book which includes that poem — is a manifesto on how language, through its own slow renewal, can recreate the world. “It is the imagination on which reality rides,” Williams wrote. “To whom then am I addressed? To the imagination.”