Flesh & Blood: Poems

by C.K. Williams

Book Overview

Flesh and 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 open-minded and self-generative, loosely improvisational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374520909
• ISBN13: 9780374520908
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent collection

C. K. Williams fully understands the complexities of writing good poetry. The work is profound and truly high art. It is most excellent.