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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>All the work of this major poet who has set a new standard for American poetry.* <p/></b><br><i>Collected Poems</i> 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. <p/>Here are his confrontational early poems, which bristle with a young idealist's righteous anger. Here are the roomy, rangy poems of <i>Tar</i> and <i>With Ignorance</i>, in which Williams married the long line of Whitman to a modern's psychological self-scrutiny; the compact sonnets of <i>Flesh and Blood</i>; and the inward investigations of <i>A Dream of Mind</i>. Here are the incomparable poems from the prize winning books <i>Repair</i> and <i>The Singing</i>. Here, too, are new poems, in which Williams's moral vigilance is brought to bear, again, on life during wartime. <i>Collected Poems</i> is the life's work of a modern master--fiercely intelligent, arresting in its beauty, unforgettable in its echoes and reverberations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Williams seems to me to fulfill, triumphantly, the big demands he places on himself. Reading his poems, you sense their considerable formal beauty, yet you also hear something more: a voice that has become a representative consciousness . . . As the poet's sentences circle and plunge across his lines like plaited sinews, they join skeptical intelligence and emotional sincerity, in a way that dignifies all of our attempts to make sense of the world and of ourselves." --Peter Campion, <i>The Boston Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>C. K. Williams </b>(1936-2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, <i>Flesh and Blood</i>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; <i>Repair</i>, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and <i>The Singing</i>, winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, <i>On Whitman</i>; a memoir, <i>Misgivings</i>; and two books of essays, <i>Poetry and Consciousness </i>and <i>In Time: Poets, Poems, </i> <i>and the Rest</i>.

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