Poetry and Consciousness

by C.K. Williams and Charles Kenneth Williams

Poetry and Consciousness brings together C. K. Williams's meditations on psychology, an epistemology of poems, considerations of poetry and its relations to history and to the novel, exploring the causes and consequences of that fruitful breakdown of language the author calls "narrative dysfunction." A former Guggenheim fellow, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and noted critic, Williams reveals the influences that helped spur...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472066722
• ISBN13: 9780472066728
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Valuable Insight Into Williams's Poetry.

While initially I read the essays in this collection as sources for a paper on Williams, I found it extremely useful to my own writing to read his thoughts about poetry and discussing his ability to briefly focus on his surroundings in so many of his poems that result in powerful and deeply felt poems. In one essay, "On `From My Window' " Williams discusses the actual events that inspired the poem, mentioning, "much of our moral education consists in.... apparently minor, oblique encounters."