Collected Poems

by C.K. Williams

Book Overview

All the work of this major poet who has "set a new standard for American poetry."* Collected Poems brings together in one volume C. K. Williams's work of nearly forty years, enabling readers to follow... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374126526
• ISBN13: 9780374126520
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 682 Pages
• Weight: 2.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Exactly as expected.

This book was shipped promptly and arrived in the condition it was described. My husband loves CK Williams and was pleased with this gift.

A gorgeous work

C.K. Williams is one of my favorite poets. His poems have a strong narrative element which makes them extremely compelling. They are also, of course, highly personal, and it is wonderful to have the chance to read such a lengthy collection and reflect on how he's matured as a person and developed as a poet over the decades. I'll quote just one, a tribute he wrote to a dear friend: "...to be able/to tell oneself that once/one knew a man wholly unsusceptible/to triviality,/bitterness or rancor,/who'd fashioned himself/with such dedication/and integrity that he'd been released/from those resentments/and envies that make/the fullest life seem mean: you life was never mean,/never not inspiring."