{"product_id":"writers-writing-dying-paperback","title":"Writers Writing Dying - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. K. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 8.97 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762294620448,"sku":"9780374534127","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/545a3d2b67f02d1bd40ba8b3901766f4.webp?v=1780218836","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/writers-writing-dying-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}