C. K. Williams

C. K. Williams
Catherine Mauger
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  • National Book Awards Finalist
  • National Book Awards Winner
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
  • PEN Literary Award Winner
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner

C. K. Williams was born in Newark in 1936. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Repair. Some other titles include Tar, The Vigil, and Flesh and Blood. He teaches at Princeton.


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C.K. Williams reads his poem "Dominion Depression"

"Listen to this poetry reading to hear poet C.K. Williams read his poem ""Dominion Depression,"" which can be found in his Collected Poems. This poetry collection brings together in one volume C. K. Williams’s work of nearly forty years, enabling readers to follow the career of this great poet through its many phases and reinventions. Learn more about Collected Poems at http://us.macmillan.com/collectedpoems-7/CWilliams Read more about C.K. Williams at http://us.macmillan.com/author/ckwilliams"

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C.K. Williams reads his poem "The Singing"

"Listen to this poetry reading to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams read his poem ""The Singing,"" from his poetry collection The Singing, which won the 2003 National Book Award. It is a direct and resonant book: searing, heartfelt, permanent. Learn more about the book The Singing at http://us.macmillan.com/thesinging/CWilliams Read more about poet C.K. Williams at http://us.macmillan.com/author/ckwilliams"

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C. K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by “the conscience-beast, who harries me,” and “riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was / for...


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Collected Poems
Collected Poems

C. K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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...


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The Singing
The Singing

C. K. Williams
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New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repair . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me there's little need for mystery . . . Except...


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Misgivings
Misgivings

C. K. Williams
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Winner of the PEN/Voelcker career achievement award in poetry Misgivings is C. K. William's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of...


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Repair
Repair

C. K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets "Always, "These gigantic inconceivables." Always, "What will have been...


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The Vigil
The Vigil

C. K. Williams
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Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award The Vigil, which first appeared in 1997, finds contemporary American master-poet C. K. Williams taking...


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A Dream of Mind
A Dream of Mind

C. K. Williams
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The poetry of C. K. Williams has won an essential place in contemporary American poetry. The long lines that have characterized his style since the...


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The Bacchae of Euripides
The Bacchae of Euripides

C. K. Williams; Introduction by Martha Nussbaum
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From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides. This book includes...


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Poems: 1963-1983
Poems: 1963-1983

C. K. Williams
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This collection brings together the body of Williams' work published before Flesh and Blood, his 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award -winning fifth book....


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Flesh & Blood
Flesh & Blood

C. K. Williams
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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...


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