Background
Williams, Charles Kenneth was born on November 4, 1936 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Paul Bernard and Dossie (Kasdin) Williams.
( Flesh and Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams...)
Flesh and Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams, was awarded the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Reviewing it in The New York Times Book Review, Edward Hirsch noted that the book's compression and exactitude gave it "the feeling of a contemporary sonnet sequence." Hirsch added: "Like Berryman's Dream Songs or Lowell's Notebooks, Mr. Williams's short poems are shapely yet open-minded and self-generative, loosely improvisational though with an underlying formal necesity."
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( From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Will...)
From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides. This book includes an introduction by Martha Nussbaum.
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( The poetry of C. K. Williams has won an essential place...)
The poetry of C. K. Williams has won an essential place in contemporary American poetry. The long lines that have characterized his style since the mid-seventies have allowed him to make ever more radical forays into what Edward Hirsch, writing in The New York Times Book Review, has called "a unique and inclusive poetry of consciousness." A Dream of Mind (1992) is dominated by the long title poem, which explores the materials and qualities of our states of consciousness with enormous flexibility and suppleness. Other poems make similar investigations into jealousy, family life, and psychological and intellectual constructs. Passionate, truculent, humorous, and always questioning, Williams's poetry is, in more than one sense, the poetry of contemporary experience. This challenging, exhilarating book marks a new stage in a truly groundbreaking writer's constantly evolving work.
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New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repair . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me there's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world to us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself. --from "The World" The awards given to C.K. Williams' two most recent books--a National Book Award for The Singing and a Pulitzer Prize for Repair--complete the process by which Williams, long admired for the intensity and formal daring of his work, has come to be recognized as one of the few truly great living American poets. 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. The Singing is a direct and resonant book: searing, hearfelt, permanent. The Singing is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Poetry.
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( Poetry and Consciousness brings together C. K. Williams...)
Poetry and Consciousness brings together C. K. Williams's meditations on psychology, an epistemology of poems, considerations of poetry and its relations to history and to the novel, exploring the causes and consequences of that fruitful breakdown of language the author calls "narrative dysfunction." A former Guggenheim fellow, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and noted critic, Williams reveals the influences that helped spur and shape the development of his art. The essays explore the world of poetry and of poets, tracing the curious forces that generate the deeply rooted but richly unfamiliar languages of verse. Williams addresses a broad audience, justifying poetry as a form of embodied consciousness that helps us situate ourselves in history, a concrete form of opportunity and responsibility. The essays examine the very structure of consciousness and suggest tools for living that enable both writers and readers to approach their own situated selves as well as other selves and other poets. C. K. Williams has authored ten books of poetry, including Flesh and Blood, A Dream of Mind, and The Vigil. He currently teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
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literature and writing educator poet
Williams, Charles Kenneth was born on November 4, 1936 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Paul Bernard and Dossie (Kasdin) Williams.
Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania, 1958.
Visiting professor literature, Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, 1975; visiting professor literature, Drexel U., Philadelphia, 1976; visiting professor literature, University of California, Irvine, 1978; visiting professor literature, Boston University, 1979-1980; visiting professor literature, Brooklyn College, 1982-1983; Mellon visiting professor literature, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1977; professor writing, Columbia University, New York City, 1981-1985; professor literature, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, 1982-1995. Halloway lecturer University of California, Berkeley, 1986, Princeton University, since 1995.
( New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repa...)
( From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Will...)
( Flesh and Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams...)
( Poetry and Consciousness brings together C. K. Williams...)
(Book by Williams, C. K.)
( The poetry of C. K. Williams has won an essential place...)
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Sponsor People's Fund, Philadelphia, since 1967. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (Voelcker Career Achievement award 1998), Poetry Society of America, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Arts and Letters.
Married Sarah Dean Jones, June, 1966 (divorced 1975). 1 child, Jessica Anne. Married Catherine Justine Mauger, April 15, 1975.
1 child, Jed Mauger.