“The War is the first and only thing in the world today.”

—  William Carlos Williams

Introduction http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/essay/237888
The Wedge (1944)
Context: The War is the first and only thing in the world today.
The arts generally are not, nor is this writing a diversion from that for relief, a turning away. It is the war or part of it, merely a different sector of the field.

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