The singing / C.K. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-2015.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

iv, 72 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Summary:

New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of "Repair . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before methere's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the worldto us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself.--from "The World" In his first volume since "Repair, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity--the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events--with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years ago. He gazes at a Rembrandt self-portrait, and from it fashions a self-portrait of his own. He ponders an "anatomical effigy" at the Museum of Mankind, an in so doing "dissects" our common humanity. Stoking a fire at a house in the country, he recalls a friend who was burned horribly in war, and then turns, with eloquence and authority, to contemporary life during wartime, asking "how those with power over us can effect these things, by what cynical reasoning do they pardon themselves." "The Singing is a direct and resonant book: touching, searching, heartfelt, permanent.

Contents:

The Doe 3

The Singing 4

Bialystok, or Lvov 6

This Happened 7

Self-portrait with Rembrandt Self-portrait 9

Gravel 10

Lessons 11

Oh 13

Narcissism 15

Dissections 16

Scale: I 17

Scale: II 19

Doves 20

Flamenco 22

Inculcations 23

Sully: Sixteen Months 24

The World 25

Of Childhood the Dark 29

Elegy for an Artist 39

War 51

Fear 53

Chaos 55

The Future 57

The Clause 58

Leaves 59

Night 60

In the Forest 63

The Hearth 65

Low Relief 67

The Tract 69.

Notes:

Winner National Book Award.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374292868

OCLC:

51977877

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