C.K. Williams
American poet known for his very long lines and psychologically penetrating observation of urban life. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Repair won the Pulitzer Prize.
Works
- LiesDebut exploring everyday deceptions and the opacity of human experience
- I Am the Bitter Name
- With IgnoranceCollection of philosophical poems about knowledge, consciousness, and language
- Flesh and BloodVisceral, intimate poems about embodiment, family, mortality, and sexuality
- RepairLater poems about aging, mortality, love, and the redemption of relationship