"I want to thank you, your words touched me deeply. There was such feeling and a very sincere compassion in your subject matter. Your poems took me to a place where few take the time to go. To put yourself into someone else's shoes and walking through their live is amazing. Please continue with your works. For if you can open the door for one person, perharps many will follow." Lisa J. - Houston, TX. "I love your poems! They are refreshing, uplifting and thought-provoking. You have a true gift and vision that bridges history and culture with lessons in life, and provides meaningful words...
"I want to thank you, your words touched me deeply. There was such feeling and a very sincere compassion in your subject matter. Your poems took me to...
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 always 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 metro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce negotiations with the shades of Coleridge, Dostoyevsky, and Celan. What the poems share is their setting in the cool, spacious, spotlit, book-lined place that is Williams's consciousness, a...
Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as th...
Since his first poetry collection, Lies, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation--as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of compelling stories. In Writers Writing Dying, he retains the essential parts of his poetic identity--his candor, the drama of his verses, the social conscience of his themes--while slyly reinventing himself, re-casting his voice, and in many poems examining the personal--sexual desire, the hubris of youth, the looming specter of death--more bluntly and bravely than ever. In "Prose," he confronts his nineteen...
Since his first poetry collection, Lies, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation--as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound e...
A selection from the last twenty years of C. K. Williams's career, plus new work--proof of his enduring power
C. K. Williams's long career has been a catalog of surprises, of inventions and reinventions, of honors. His one constant is a remarkable degree of flexibility, a thrilling ability to shape-shift that goes hand in hand with an essential, enduring honesty. This rare, heady mix has ensured that his verses have remained, from book to book, as fresh and vibrant as they were when he first burst onto the scene.
Selected Later Poems--a generous selection...
A selection from the last twenty years of C. K. Williams's career, plus new work--proof of his enduring power
