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Collected Poems

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ISBN-10: 0374530998

ISBN-13: 9780374530990

Edition: N/A

Authors: C. K. Williams

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All the work of this major poet who has "set a new standard for American poetry."* Collected Poemsbrings together in one volume C. K. Williams’s work of nearly forty years, enabling readers to follow the career of this great poet through its many phases and reinventions. Here are his confrontational early poems, which bristle with a young idealist’s righteous anger. Here are the roomy, rangy poems ofTarandWith Ignorance, in which Williams married the long line of Whitman to a modern’s psychological self-scrutiny; the compact sonnets ofFlesh and Blood; and the inward investigations ofA Dream of Mind. Here are the incomparable poems from the prize winning booksRepairandThe Singing. Here,…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.518
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.