Writers Writing Dying: Poems

Writers Writing Dying: Poems

Since his first poetry collection, Lies, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputationâ€•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 identityâ€•his candor, the drama of his verses, the social conscience of his themesâ€•while slyly reinventing himself, re-casting his voice, and in many poems examining the personalâ€•sexual desire, the hubris of youth, the looming specter of deathâ€•more bluntly and bravely than ever. In "Prose," he confronts his nineteen year-old self, who despairs of writing poetry, with the question "How could anyone know this little?" In a poem of meditation, "The Day Continues Lovely," he radically expands the scale of his attention: "Meanwhile cosmos roars on with so many voices we can't hear ourselves think. Galaxy on. Galaxy off. Universe on, but another just behind this one . . . " Even the poet's own purpose is questioned; in "Draft 23" he asks, "Between scribble and slashâ€•are we trying to change the world by changing the words?" With this wildly vibrant collectionâ€•by turns funny, moving, and surprisingâ€•Williams proves once again that, he has, in Michael Hofmann's words, "as much scope and truthfulness as any American poet since Lowell and Berryman."
Country USA
Brand Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_0374534128
ReleaseDate 2013-11-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780374534127

Country	USA
Brand	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_0374534128
ReleaseDate	2013-11-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780374534127

Writers Writing Dying: Poems

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