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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Bacchae of Euripides

    A New Version

    by C. K. Williams ...
    From the renowned contemporary American poet comes this fluent and accessible version of The Bacchae , the great tragedy by Euripides.Includes an introduction by Martha Nussbaum"This new version of The Bacchae should allow English readers to appreciate some of the rich qualities of Euripides' masterpiece. C. K. Williams handles the spoken poetry of the original in a flexible verse that en... ... 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Dream of Mind

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    "Relentless, urban, invasive—like city life itself," a collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet ( The New Republic ).The poetry of C. K. Williams has won an essential place in contemporary American poetry. The long lines that have characterized his style since the mid-seventies have allowed him to make ever more radical forays into what Edward Hirsch, writing in The New York Times ... Read more

    $11.19 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

  • The Singing

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repair. . . Reality has put itself so solidly before methere's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the worldto us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself.--from "The World"In his first volume since Repair, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity--the loss of friends, the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Writers Writing Dying

    Poems

    by C. K. Williams ...
    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 ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD