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Repair Poems

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ISBN-10: 0374527067

ISBN-13: 9780374527068

Edition: N/A

Authors: C. K. Williams

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Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets "Always, "These gigantic inconceivables." Always, "What will have been done to me?" And so we don our mental armor, flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should. A violent alertness, the muscularity of risk, though still the secret inward cry: What else, what more?" --from "Risk" Repair is body work in C. K. Williams's sensual poems, but it is also an imaginative treatment of the consternations that interrupt life's easy narrative. National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Williams keeps the self in repair despite love, death, social disorder, and the secrets that separate and join…    
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Book details

List price: $12.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

C. K. Williams is the author of eight books of poems, the most recent of which, "Repair", won the Pulitzer Prize & the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize. He teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University & lives part of the year in Paris.

Ice
The Train
Archetypes
After Auschwitz
The Dress
The Blow
Bone
Shock
The Poet
Stone
Droplets
Tender
Risk
House
Naked
Glass
Shoe
Dream
The Cup
Lost Wax
Space
Tantrum
Not Soul
Depths
Tree
King
Owen: Seven Days
Gas
Last Things
The Lie
The Nail
Canal
The Dance
Biopsy
The Island
Dirt
Swifts
Invisible Mending