Spring and all

 Williams said something like that when you're writing, write upside down. This isn't quite what he said perhaps, but conveys the sense of what he did say about writing.

It's a beautiful little book, Spring and All, as re-issued by New Directions in late 2011 as a facsimile edition of the original 1923 edition issued by Contact Press.

The Errata page itself is a poem of 91-lines, where schism is spelled scism, the phrase excrementa in was first printed as excrementa is,  and the word writing was mis-printed as writting.

Books are primarily about hope, the "great alleviator "as Flaubert had it. At least this is what the poet Cid Corman said Flaubert said about hope (in a letter to this writer sometime in the 1990's) though it doesn't appear now that Flaubert said any such thing, though he did write that 'love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

But it is impossible not to think when surrounded by books, as in a bookstore or a library, that a book is at best a repository of hope, however discouraged or discouraging the author may be. And to see book after book on a bookshelf, the personal lineaments of the writer of each book as different one from another as spring is to fall, is to see individual hope move toward a collective hope in which an individual might begin to take heart that the world, as constituted by the living and the dead, has some hope of continuing however dreadfully disappointing things seem to be.