Collected Poems

Collected Poems brings together nearly four decades of C. K.Williams's work: more than four hundred poems that, though remarkable in their variety, have in common Williams's distinctive outlook―restless, passionate, dogged, and uncompromising in the drive to find words for the truth about life as we know it today.
 Williams's rangy, elastic lines are measures of thought, and in these pages we watch them unfold from his confrontational early poems through the open, expansive Tar and With Ignorance. His voice is both cerebral and muscular, capable of both the eightline poems of Flesh and Blood and the inward soundings of A Dream of Mind―and of both together in the award-winning recent books Repair and The Singing. These poems feel spontaneous, individual, and directly representative of the experience of which they sing; open to life, they chafe against summary and conclusion.
 Few poets leave behind them a body of work that is global in its ambition and achievement. C. K. Williams is one of them.

Literature & Fiction

C.K. Williams

Poetry

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

New & selected poems

Bloodaxe

Singing

Bloodaxe Books

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Open City is a rare contemporary phenomenon: a literary journal that gets people talking about literature, with contributions from a dynamic mix of prominent writers, undiscovered aspirants, and lost treasures by writers from past eras. From Edvard Munch's journals to Terry Southern's screenplays to Rick Moody's poetry to Michael Cunningham's essays to Mary Gaitskill's short stories, Open City features an exciting range of talents, with an edgy style and wit not to be found in any other literary journal. Volume Number 17 contains stories by Jack Walls, Adrian Dannatt, and Siobhan Reagan; poetry by Nathaniel Bellows, Heidi Kujac, and Daniel Nester; and art by Matthew Higgs, Delia Brown, and Kerry Tribe. "Open City showcases the literature of tomorrow today." -- Los Angeles Times

Open City No. 17, Summer 2003 (Open City, 17)

Carolyn Forché

Chuck Kinder

Mark Jude Poirer

Literary

Grove Press, Open City Books

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