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First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. (poetry)

First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. (poetry)

First edition with promotional material` Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

First edition with promotional material` Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374226539. 78 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In his seventh volume of poetry, C. K. Williams broadens and deepens the themes of A DREAM OF MIND (1992) with a range and imaginative vigor that make this his most powerful book yet. Over three decades, C. K. Williams has claimed as his own a world of startling anecdotes and complex inner states, rendered in precise, daring language. THE VIGIL--which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and, in the United Kingdom, the Forward Prize--brings Williams's poetry to a new pitch of intensity. Williams' poetry has become more condensed, more intensely lyrical, and while the broad range of theme and concern evident in his SELECTED POEMS has not been slighted, the poems have become even more sharply observed and dramatic. There are poems for departed family and friends, love poems, poems of history and of social and political despair and hope, and a series of shorter poems, ‘Symbols', which incorporate an almost Rilkean metaphoric force to delineate fugitive emotional and intellectual experience. The tragedy of existence, Williams writes, is ‘to come so close to a life and not comprehend it, acknowledge it, truly know it is life. ' In THE VIGIL, however, Williams achieves a kind of comprehension, and shares it with the reader, through the way of knowing that is poetry. inventory #5197.

0374226539 Ex-Library (M41)

0374226539 Ex-Library (M41)

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.