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In 'Prose', he confronts his nineteen-year-old self, who despairs of writing poetry, with the question 'How could anyone know this little?' In a poem of meditation, 'The Day Continues Lovely', he radically expands the scale of his attention: 'Meanwhile cosmos roars on with so many voices we can't hear ourselves think. Galaxy on. Galaxy off. Universe on, but another just behind this one - ' Even the poet's own purpose is questioned; in 'Draft 23' he asks, 'Between scribble and slash - are we trying to change the world by changing the words?' With this wildly vibrant collection - by turns funny, moving, and surprising - Williams proves once again that, he has, in Michael Hofmann's words, 'as much scope and truthfulness as any American poet since Lowell and Berryman'. 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A long poem about the sixties, King, broods over the mixed motives and misunderstandings of the period, while the book's final poem defines, and in its way celebrates, the 'invisible mending' of time. Repair won the Pulitzer Prize in the US, was a PBS Recommendation and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522395480337,"sku":"GOR001296799","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852245107.jpg?v=1751457591"},{"product_id":"wait-book-c-k-williams-9780374285913","title":"Wait","description":"\u003ci\u003eWait\u003c\/i\u003e finds C. K. 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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49526879289617,"sku":"GOR013745873","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761910255889,"sku":"CIN0374285918VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374285918.jpg?v=1751438761"},{"product_id":"dream-of-mind-book-c-k-williams-9780374523763","title":"A Dream of Mind","description":"C. K. Williams's work has won an essential place in contemporary American poetry. 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