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Collected Poems (Paperback)
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Collected Poems (Paperback)
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C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of
his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who
made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday
life. His poems are startlingly intense anecdotes on love, death,
secrets and wayward thought, examining the inner life in precise,
daring language. 'A voice that has become utterly distinctive:
restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in its quest to
find and speak the truth...an intelligence both compassionate and
fierce. The result is four decades of poems that delve into
everything from the most joyous and private matters of the heart
(he is one of our greatest love poets) to the chaos and horror of
politics, warfare, and our species' seemingly innate penchant for
cruelty and self-destruction. Like Whitman's, his world view is
simultaneously micro- and macrocosmic. Williams' rangy, elastic
lines are measures of thought, and his syntax enacts the ways in
which the mind moves through mood and memory, speculation and
logic. Because the voice is both cerebral and muscular in its
reflexes, the music it makes feels spontaneous, individual, and
directly representative of the experience of which it sings. The
poems are wholly American in this regard; their simultaneous
tenderness and outrage bring to mind the music of Charles Ives. Few
poets leave behind them a body of work that is global in its
ambition and achievement, but C.K. Williams is one of them. His
poetry will speak to future generations, as it does to us, of what
it was to be human in our time.' - Chase Twichell
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