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Spring and All is how it foregrounds process, both as an aesthetic principle and an aspect of American life. "America is process," social critic John Kouwenhoven astutely observed in his essay "What's American about America." That is, American culture celebrates movement and change as ends in themselves. In a purposely jumbled sequence of poetry and prose, [William Carlos] Williams invoked the very touchstones that Kouwenhoven later used to illustrate this point, including jazz, the poetry of Walt Whitman, industrial machinery, skyscrapers, and, of course, our seemingly endless roads.

from The Brooklyn Rail: The Makings of an American

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