Creve CoeurRobert Fitterman Robert Fitterman's sixteenth and most ambitious book transposes William Carlos Williams's postwar long poem Paterson onto the segregated suburbs of late twentieth century St. Louis to track the collapse of the American urban landscape. Mirroring Paterson's structure page for page, Fitterman translates Williams's patchwork of local news stories, personal letters, and found historical documents into the landscapes and mythologies of his