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  • Flowers for the Dead

    by C. K. Williams ...
    I am the reason girls are told not to trust strangers. I am their cautionary tale.Nineteen years ago Linn Wilson was attacked. Seventeen-years-old and home alone, she’d been waiting for her friends to arrive when she heard the doorbell ring. But when she opened the door, Linn let in her worst nightmare. The culprit was never found.It was someone I knew. I am going to find out who did this to me ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • In Time

    Poets, Poems, and the Rest

    by C.K. Williams ...
    Winner of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and numerous other awards, C. K. Williams is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation. Known for the variety of his subject matter and the expressive intensity of his verse, he has written on topics as resonant as war, social injustice, love, family, sex, death, depression, and intellectual despair and delight. He is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Village Voices

    A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012

    by Odile Hellier ...
    **A celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982—a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over three decades until it closed in 2012.“My entire sense of Paris centers on Odile and the bookshop.” —Richard Ford"For literature lovers, it’s a feast." —Publishers Weekly**In July of 1982, on a quiet ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Invisible Mending

    The Best of C. K. Williams

    by C. K. Williams ...
    The essential poetry of C. K. Williams, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.C. K. Williams (1936–2015), one of the most treasured American poets of the past century, was also one of the most surprising. From poem to poem, his voice would shift in register and style, yet a certain essence would remain: his conviction, his ethic, and his burning gaze. As William Deresiewicz ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Selected Later Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    A selection from the last twenty years of the award-winning poet's career, plus new work—proof of his enduring power."One of the most distinguished poets of his generation." —Paul Muldoon, The Times Literary Supplement (UK)C. K. Williams's long career has been a catalog of surprises, of inventions and reinventions, of honors. His one constant is a remarkable degree of flexibility, a thrilling ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams's work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook—restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as we know it today.Williams's rangy, elastic lines are measures of thought, and in these pages we watch ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Flesh and Blood

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    Flesh & Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams, was awarded the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, Edward Hirsch noted that the book's compression and exactitude gave it "the feeling of a contemporary sonnet sequence." Hirsch added: "Like Berryman's Dream Songs or Lowell's Notebooks, Mr. Williams's short poems are shapely yet ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Repair

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    The eighth book--and the most various yet--by a major American poet.With his two previous books, a generous Selected Poems and The Vigil, C. K. Williams received great acclaim, including the PEN/Voelcker Award and the prestigious Berlin Prize. Repair represents an extraordinary outpouring of nearly fifty new poems. His subjects, again, are love, death, secrets among intimates, the waywardness of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • All at Once

    by C. K. Williams ...
    Short, sharp musings on things profound and mundane (and sometimes both) from the Pulitzer Prize winning poetC. K. Williams has never been afraid to push the boundaries of poetic form—in fact, he's known for it, with long, lyrical lines that compel, enthrall, and ensnare. In his latest work, All at Once, Williams again embodies this spirit of experimentation, carving out fresh spaces for himself ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Falling Ill

    Last Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    A capstone to an unforgettable careerOver the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor "the burden of being alive." In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings 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 ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Misgivings

    My Mother, My Father, Myself

    by C. K. Williams ...
    An intense, refractory memoir by a major poetMisgivings is C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, and inner conflict. Like Kafka's self-revealing Letter to His Father, Misgivings is full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true.Williams's father was an ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Vigil

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    In The Vigil, his seventh book of poetry, C. K. Williams broadens and deepens the themes of A Dream of Mind with a range and imaginative vigor that make this his most powerful book yet."Williams is famous for his long verse line. An admirable instrument indeed, it is an Offenbach Barcarole of a line, seductively wafting us over the deeps Williams plumbs and charming attention away from the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD