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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Since With Ignorance ( LJ 6/15/77) , Williams has been honing a distinct, visually recognizable style that stretches the lines of his verse from margin to margina style not necessarily suited to standard book format. In this newest collection, consisting of 130 8-line stanzas, these long, breathy lines make his poems lean toward a prosy, conversational voice: "After a string of failed romances and intensely remarked sexual adven-/ tures she'd finally married." But Williams is also capable of the strong, lyrical moment, as in his moving elegy to friend and fellow poet Paul Zweig: "Scents of dawn, the softening all-night fire, char, ash, warm ember in the/ early morning chill./ The moment holds, you move across the path and go, the light lifts, breaks:/ goodbye, my friend, farewell." A good choice for contemporary poetry collections. Thom Tammaro, Multidisciplinary Studies Dept., Moorhead State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Since With Ignorance ( LJ 6/15/77) , Williams has been honing a distinct, visually recognizable style that stretches the lines of his verse from margin to margina style not necessarily suited to standard book format. In this newest collection, consisting of 130 8-line stanzas, these long, breathy lines make his poems lean toward a prosy, conversational voice: "After a string of failed romances and intensely remarked sexual adven-/ tures she'd finally married." But Williams is also capable of the strong, lyrical moment, as in his moving elegy to friend and fellow poet Paul Zweig: "Scents of dawn, the softening all-night fire, char, ash, warm ember in the/ early morning chill./ The moment holds, you move across the path and go, the light lifts, breaks:/ goodbye, my friend, farewell." A good choice for contemporary poetry collections. Thom Tammaro, Multidisciplinary Studies Dept., Moorhead State Univ., Minn.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"To put it simply, C. K. Williams is a wonderful poet, in the authentic American tradition of Walt Whitman and W. C. Williams, who tells us on every page what it means to be alive in our time. Among the treasures [in Flesh and Blood] is his sequence of poems on the death of his friend, the poet Paul Zweig. It is unmistakably one of the truly great modern elegies."--Stanley Kunitz
"A refreshingly urban book. . . . There is a restless intelligence behind all of C. K. Williams's work. . . . The range of his concerns and the depth of his emotional insight give [this book] value. Williams's poems, whatever their shape, remind us how much other poets leave out."--Don Bogen, The Nation
"A refreshingly urban book. . . . There is a restless intelligence behind all of C. K. Williams's work. . . . The range of his concerns and the depth of his emotional insight give [this book] value. Williams's poems, whatever their shape, remind us how much other poets leave out."--Don Bogen, The Nation
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