Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
69 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Ice -- The Train -- Archetypes -- After Auschwitz -- The Dress -- The Blow -- Bone -- The Poet -- Stone -- Droplets -- Tender -- Risk -- House -- Naked -- Glass -- Shoe -- Dream -- The Cup -- Lost Wax -- Space -- Tantrum -- Not Soul -- Depths -- Tree -- King -- Owen: Seven Days -- Gas -- Last Things -- The Lie -- The Nail -- Canal -- The Dance -- Biopsy -- The Island -- Dirt -- Swifts -- Invisible Mending. |
Summary |
With his two previous books, a generous Selected Poems and The Vigil, C.K. Williams received major acclaim, including the PEN/Voelcker Award and the prestigious Berlin Prize. Repair represents an extraordinary outpouring of new work: nearly fifty poems, many of them in couplets and quatrains, together with a number of generous longer poems. His subjects, again, are love, death, the secrets kept among intimates, the waywardness of thought, and the violence and metaphoric power of the natural world. A long poem about the sixties, "King", broods over the mixed motives and misunderstandings of the period; the final poem defines, and in its way celebrates, the "invisible mending" of time and attentiveness to the thing itself. |
Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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ISBN |
0374249326 (alk. paper) |
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9780374249328 (alk. paper) |
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