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In a poem titled for this city, the speaker claims that he “would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico” than face the “daylight misery of thumb-sucking rage.” In a poem, a resident of this city uses the analogy “a man like a city and a woman like a flower” and repeatedly exclaims, “Thalassa!” The speaker recalls being read stories from a “Communist fairy book” printed in this city and spending “long nites watching over your nervousness” in Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Kaddish,” which recounts his (*) upbringing in this city. A poem opens by describing this city’s location in a valley under a waterfall in the section “The Delineaments of the Giants.” A physician from this city wrote a poem about it that repeats the maxim (10[1])“no ideas but in things.” (10[1])For 10 points, what New Jersey city titles an epic poem by William Carlos Williams? ■END■

ANSWER: Paterson, New Jersey (The poem in the first sentence is “Paterson” by Allen Ginsberg.)
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