Poems: 1963-1983

by C.K. Williams

Book Overview

This collection brings together the body of Williams' work published before Flesh and Blood , his 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award -winning fifth book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374522049
• ISBN13: 9780374522049
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The essential introduction, and worth waiting for

For me this is still the essential C. K. Williams collection, because it shows the evolution of his style from rather "standard" versification through the long line he has only lately begun to abandon. The books is worth the price if only for one poem: "In The Heart of the Beast," a furious elegy on the massacres and Kent and Jackson State Universities in May 1970. I don't think Williams wrote anything like it before or after, but it's a staggering piece of political invective.