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Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly 'the dreadful edge of a precipice' where a futureless future stares back at them. Urgent, unpunctuated, headlong, vertiginous, they race against time to trace the sinuous, startling twists and turns of consciousness. All is coming apart, taken away, except the brilliant art to describe it all as the end is coming. All along is the reassurance of love's close presence. Here are no easy resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep interrogation - a dialogue between the agonised 'I' in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive 'you' of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach. C. K. William's Falling Ill will take its place among the enduring works of literature about death and departure.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579591237905,"sku":"GOR009939192","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50390798401809,"sku":"CIN1780373554G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51797638316305,"sku":"GOR009936125","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780373554.jpg?v=1751446253"},{"product_id":"misgivings-my-mother-my-father-myself-book-ck-williams-9780374199845","title":"Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Voelcker career achievement award in poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisgivings\u003c\/i\u003e is C. K. William's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, inner conflict, and, finally, love. Like Kafka's self-revealing \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMisgivings \u003c\/i\u003eis a full of doubt, both philosophical and personal, but as a work of art it is sure and true. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliams's father was an ordinary businessman--angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could recite the Greek myths to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. Wiiiams's mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the conspiracy that made me who I am. His account of their life together and of their deaths--his father's in a final abandonment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation--is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350036582673,"sku":"CIN0374199841G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53119373377809,"sku":"CIN0374199841VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374199841.jpg?v=1750941983"},{"product_id":"poetry-and-consciousness-book-charles-kenneth-williams-9780472066728","title":"Poetry and Consciousness","description":"Meditations from one of our most esteemed contemporary critics and poets","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50353221959953,"sku":"CIN0472066722G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52413841211665,"sku":"GOR006884331","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53622607053073,"sku":"GOR014985731","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472066722.jpg?v=1751039903"},{"product_id":"flesh-and-blood-book-ck-williams-9781852240677","title":"Flesh and Blood","description":"C.K. 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