C. K. Williams (1936 2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, "Flesh and Blood", which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; "Repair", which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and "The Singing", winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, "On Whitman"; a memoir, "Misgivings"; and two books of essays, "Poetry and Consciousness "and "In Time: Poets, Poems, ""and the Rest".