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Wait by C K Williams

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 whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris Métro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce negotiations with the shades of Coleridge, Dostoevsky, and Celan. What the poems share is their setting in the cool, spacious, spotlit, book-lined place that is Williams's consciousness, a place whose workings he has rendered for fifty years with inimitable candor and style.

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ISBN 13 9780374285913
ISBN 10 0374285918
Title Wait
Author C K Williams
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Year published 2010-04-27
Number of pages 144
Prizes Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Poetry) 2011, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2011
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.