{"product_id":"writers-writing-dying-9780374534127","title":"Writers Writing Dying","description":"Since his first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eLies\u003c\/i\u003e, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation--as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of compelling stories. In \u003ci\u003eWriters Writing Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, he retains the essential parts of his poetic identity--his candor, the drama of his verses, the social conscience of his themes--while slyly reinventing himself, re-casting his voice, and in many poems examining the personal--sexual desire, the hubris of youth, the looming specter of death--more bluntly and bravely than ever. In \"Prose,\" he confronts his nineteen year-old self, who despairs of writing poetry, with the question \"How could anyone know this little?\" In a poem of meditation, \"The Day Continues Lovely,\" he radically expands the scale of his attention: \"Meanwhile cosmos roars on with so many voices we can't hear ourselves think. Galaxy on. Galaxy off. Universe on, but another just behind this one . . . \" Even the poet's own purpose is questioned; in \"Draft 23\" he asks, \"Between scribble and slash--are we trying to change the world by changing the words?\" With this wildly vibrant collection--by turns funny, moving, and surprising--Williams proves once again that, he has, in Michael Hofmann's words, \"as much scope and truthfulness as any American poet since Lowell and Berryman.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-842928\"\u003eC. K. Williams\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.08w x 0.21d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374534127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374534128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. K. Williams \u003c\/b\u003e(1936-2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, \u003ci\u003eFlesh and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and \u003ci\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, \u003ci\u003eOn Whitman\u003c\/i\u003e; a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMisgivings\u003c\/i\u003e; and two books of essays, \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Consciousness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIn Time: Poets, Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44579582836973,"sku":"9780374534127","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_2e18246e-5c36-435a-baa4-d00c91a4fa75.jpg?v=1702062249","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/writers-writing-dying-9780374534127","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}