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C. K Williams has chosen from the three decades of his work to represent every aspect of his remarkable career. The book opens with poems from his first two collections; moves on to a substantial portion of "With Ignorance" (1977), in which Williams first explored the sinewy, long line that is one of the marvels of postwar poetry; and then to selections from "Tar" (1983), "Flesh and Blood" (1987), and "A Dream of Mind" (1992), which show him mastering that line in succinct eight-line poems and intense and capacious longer poems.

"The poems tell stories, and such is their ability to enact that even the most meditative of them have strong dramatic elements....The adjustments, qualifications and sudden discoveries create a verisimilitude, a sense of spontaneity not found in any other poet. It says something about the confusion within contemporary poetry that this book hasn't been nominated for any literary prizes. In his mid-fifties, C. K. Williams is one of our major poets."

Stephen Dobyns, Washington Post Book World, 07/30/1995

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