Collected Poems

Collected Poems

<p><b>All the work of this major poet who has "set a new standard for American poetry."*</b><br><b></b><br><b></b><br><i>Collected Poems</i> 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.</p><p>Here are his confrontational early poems, which bristle with a young idealist's righteous anger. Here are the roomy, rangy poems of <i>Tar</i> and <i>With Ignorance</i>, in which Williams married the long line of Whitman to a modern's psychological self-scrutiny; the compact sonnets of <i>Flesh and Blood</i>; and the inward investigations of <i>A Dream of Mind</i>. Here are the incomparable poems from the prize winning books <i>Repair</i> and <i>The Singing</i>. Here, too, are new poems, in which Williams's moral vigilance is brought to bear, again, on life during wartime. <i>Collected Poems</i> is the life's work of a modern master―fiercely intelligent, arresting in its beauty, unforgettable in its echoes and reverberations.</p>