9780374285913

Wait

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780374285913

Hardcover|9780374285913


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Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was for whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris Métro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce negotiations with the shades of Coleridge, Dostoevsky, and Celan. 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.

ISBN-13

9780374285913

ISBN-10

0374285918

Weight

0.78 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.50 x 9.00 In

List Price

$25.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

144 pages

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published On

2010-04-27



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