Collected Poems Book

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