Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
Summary: In his first book of poetry since Repair, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity-the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events-with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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Summary: Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was for whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris Métro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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Summary: Collects nearly four decades of the author's work featuring poems from "Tar," "With Ignorance," "Flesh and Blood," "A Dream of Mind," "Repair," and "The Singing."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1999