#ckwilliams

[slickcatbooks]

Today’s Literary Calendar birthdays contains a First Lady, a Peruvian journalist and a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner! Find out more at: https://slickcatbooks.com/pages/literary-calendar-2021 Happy Birthday to all! C. K. Williams, Alfred Henschke, Charles Frazier, Ciro Alegria, David H. Greene, Edin Philpotts, James Green, Kenneth R. Timmerman, Laura Bush, Perry Moore and Tamim Ansary! @alfred.henschke @ciroalegria @laurawbush #ckwilliams #alfredhenschke #charlesfrazier #ciroalegria #edinphilpotts #jamesgreen #kennethrtimmerman #laurabush #perrymoore #tamimansary #slickcatbooks #greatbooksgreatmemories #literarycalendar #birthdays #authorsbirthdays #morethanastore https://www.instagram.com/p/CV3MgLLrBHu/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ceejayheff]

wall

Snarling, stinking, snapping his fore-fangs, out of the woods, wild waste beyond woods, comes beast, comes brute, carnivorous, ravenous, but before him - and oh, we were saved - rose our wall.

  Violent, fearsome, with invulnerable helmet and shield, comes antagonist, foe, furious, pitiless, lethal, axmen behind him chanting their cuneiform curse, but before him - and, oh, saved again - loomed our wall.

  So we raised ever more walls, even walls that might fail: Jericho shucked from its ramparts, men, women, old, young, all slaughtered. What did it matter? We believed still in our wall.

  Then the inspiration to build walls facing in! Reservation, concentration camp, ghetto, finally whole countries walled in, and saved were we from traitors who'd dare wish to flee our within.

  That such walls fail, too, fall, too? No matter. Only raise more. That all walls, facing out or in, fail, fall, leaving fossils of lives in numb rubble? No matter. Raise more. Only raise more.

  C K Williams

[mj1982mjha]

"Spring: the first morning when that one true block of sweet, laminar, complex scent arrives from somewhere west and I keep coming to lean on the sill, glorying in the end of the wretched winter." #CKWilliams. #Poetry. #AmericanPoet. #AmericanPoetry. #SpringPoem. #Literature. (at Samastipur) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7_HP1sh7to/?igshid=40snexdthler

[yourdisappointedarms]

“A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.” #ckwilliams #americanpoet #translator #critic (at Ohio's 11th Congressional District) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn8_ajthUcc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lzuhb8llhsdl

[camilaevia]

[fiulibrary]

“A capstone to an unforgettable career

Over the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet’s task: to record with candor and ardor “the burden of being alive.” In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind’s encounter with the brute fact of the body’s decay, the spirit’s erasure.

Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly “the dreadful edge of a precipice” where a futureless future stares back. Urgent, unpunctuated, headlong, vertiginous, they race against time to trace the sinuous, startling twists and turns of consciousness. All is coming apart, taken away, except the brilliant art to describe it as the end is coming. All along is the reassurance of love’s close presence.

Here are no easy resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep interrogation—a dialogue between the agonized “I” in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive “you” of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach.

Williams’s Falling Ill takes its place among the enduring works of literature about death and departure.” (from Amazon description)

http://fiu.catalog.fcla.edu/permalink.jsp?27FI034978308

[vincemontague]

The mail delivered these two books to me today. #ckwilliams #waltwhitman #poetry #richardwright #haiku #lit

[mariano-sinestesia-blog]

#Reading #ckwilliams seems appropiate before the #vnvnation show!!! Buen jueves! (en La Opera)