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Writers Writing Dying

Writers Writing Dying

Williams, C. K.

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0374534128
ISBN13: 9780374534127
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Nov 19 2013
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
Since his first poetry collection, Lies, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation--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 identity--his candor, the drama of his verses, the social conscience of his themes--while slyly reinventing himself, re-casting his voice, and in many poems examining the personal--sexual desire, the hubris of youth, the looming specter of death--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 slash--are we trying to change the world by changing the words? With this wildly vibrant collection--by turns funny, moving, and surprising--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.

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