Copyright 1994 by Cambridge University Press. The particular signs of the flower are read analogously with the particulars of the woman, and in doing so Williams avoids the spatial reduction of one in terms of the other. From William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture . Linda A. Kinnahan . Despite the many representations of women and proclamations of a feminine essence present within Williams's oeuvre, he intuits a quality his verbal constructs cannot circumscribe.
Touch leads to blossom and to the paradoxical empty-fullness of the field.