C. K. Williams, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (72p) ISBN 978-0-374-29286-7
The author of 14 books of poetry, Pulitzer Prize–winner Williams continues in his new collection to give voice to fleeting moments of domestic rapture and despair that seem to always arrive wrapped in mortality. Typical is a poem about a...
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C. K. Williams, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $35 (682p) ISBN 978-0-374-12652-0
Williams's characteristic poems can be recognized as his on the page, in the ear or indeed from across a room. With long lines and flat language, his best work (in breakthrough books like 1983's Tar
and the 1987 tour-de-force Flesh and...
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C. K. Williams, Author . Princeton Univ. $19.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-691-14472-6
This jewel of a book, by one poet on another in the Writers on Writers series, does nothing less than show that Walt Whitman is the very unconscious and Paraclete of all American poets working today. With generous quotes from Williams's hero,...
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C.K. Williams, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $25 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-28591-3
In his first new collection since his monumental Collected Poems, Pulitzer-winner and septuagenarian Williams delivers his best book in a decade, and one of his best outright. Like W.S. Merwin's late-career masterpiece The Shadow of Sirius, this is...
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C. K. Williams, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (99p) ISBN 978-0-374-28894-5
The voice in the poems of Williams's ( Flesh and Blood ) new collection is one at odds with itself, vacillating between the intense desire to make sense of dreams, jealousies and mortality, yet acknowledging the great difficulty of doing so. In ``Sig
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C. K. Williams, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-22653-4
A line of two-dozen syllables is, for Williams (A Dream of Mind, 1992), small potatoes. His stanzas extend to and from the book spine like knobby, elongated hands grabbing for God, for relief from pain and for love. A menagerie of woeful lives is...
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C. K. Williams, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-24932-8
In his long career Williams has performed a rare feat, forging a distinctive style by great labor without a late flop into exhausted mannerism. Past 60, newly a grandfather, he is still a foxy tinkerer, offering a good deal of variety in his...
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C. K. Williams, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-19984-5
Award-winning poet Williams (Repair; The Vigil) forays into nonfiction with this meditative, tense memoir about family hurt, disappointment and rage. The book starts off promisingly with a philosophical, authorial distance, suggesting Williams's...
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C.K. Williams. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-29332-1
Williams, one of America’s most celebrated poets, now in his 70s, has been thinking out loud about death—his own—concertedly over his past several books, but this is the first time he’s really having fun, taking a jaunty stroll toward oblivion,...
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C.K. Williams, illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska, Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205466-3
A boy lives near a "regular, ordinary, standard sort of forest," except that along with the usual perils of cliffs, bears, snakes, and wolves, there's also an actual, awful monster with a penchant for scaring children. "That's what people said,...
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C. K. Williams, Author, Stephen Gammell, Illustrator , illus. by Stephen Gammell. HMH/Harcourt $17 (36p) ISBN 978-0-15-205460-1
The lonely Nobble (an implike creature with “two lovely wings and little claws on his fingers and a bunch of nice toes”) has never met another living being, but after a long journey he is found by a girl who, in turn, leads him to...
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