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by: C.K. Williams
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780374126520
ISBN: 0374126526
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Sales Rank: 459665
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams’s work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams’s distinctive outlook—restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as we know it today.
Williams’s rangy, elastic lines are measures of thought, and in these pages we watch them unfold from his confrontational early poems through the open, expansive Tar and With Ignorance. His voice is both cerebral and muscular, capable of both the eightline poems of Flesh and Blood and the inward soundings of A Dream of Mind—and of both together in the award-winning recent books Repair and The Singing. These poems feel spontaneous, individual, and directly representative of the experience of which they sing; open to life, they chafe against summary and conclusion.
Few poets leave behind them a body of work that is global in its ambition and achievement. C. K. Williams is one of them.
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Rating: - A gorgeous work
C.K. Williams is one of my favorite poets. His poems have a strong narrative element which makes them extremely compelling. They are also, of course, highly personal, and it is wonderful to have the chance to read such a lengthy collection and reflect on how he's matured as a person and developed as a poet over the decades. I'll quote just one, a tribute he wrote to a dear friend:
"...to be able/to tell oneself that once/one knew a man wholly
unsusceptible/to triviality,/bitterness ... Read More
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