C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of
his generation, a shape-shifting 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. Over the past half-century, he took
upon himself the poet's task: to record with candour and ardour
'the burden of being alive'. In Falling Ill, his final volume of
poems, he brought this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a
restless mind's encounter with the brute fact of the body's decay,
the spirit's erasure. Written with unsparing lyricism and
relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly
'the dreadful edge of a precipice' where a futureless future stares
back at them. Urgent, unpunctuated, headlong, vertiginous, they
race against time to trace the sinuous, startling twists and turns
of consciousness. All is coming apart, taken away, except the
brilliant art to describe it all as the end is coming. All along is
the reassurance of love's close presence. Here are no easy
resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are
poems of deep interrogation - a dialogue between the agonised 'I'
in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive 'you' of the
beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach. C. K. William's
Falling Ill will take its place among the enduring works of
literature about death and departure.
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