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The Singing

Poems

The Singing( )
Author: Williams, C. K.
ISBN:978-0-374-52950-5
Publication Date:Nov 2004
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.00
Book Description:

New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author ofRepair . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me there's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world to us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself. --from "The World" The awards given to C.K. Williams' two most recent books--a National Book Award forThe Singingand a Pulitzer Prize forRepair--complete the...
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Book Details
Pages:80
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.2 Inches
Book Weight:0.264 Pounds
Author Biography
Williams, C. K. (Author)
Charles Kenneth Williams was born on November 4, 1936 in Newark, New Jersey. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. His collections of poetry include Lies, The Last Deaths, Collected Poems, and Selected Later Poems. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987 for Flesh and Blood, the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Repair in 2000, and the National Book Award for The Singing in 2003.

In addition to writing poetry, he translated plays by Sophocles and poems by Adam Zagajewski and Francis Ponge. His critical essays were collected in Poetry and Consciousness and In Time: Poets, Poems, and the Rest. He also wrote On Whitman and a memoir entitled Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself. He taught in Princeton University's creative writing program from 1996 until shortly before his death. He died from multiple myeloma on September 20, 2015 at the age of 78.

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