9780374527280
Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself
C.K. Williams
ISBN 13: 9780374527280
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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A searing, poetic memoir in prose by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
My father dead, I come into the room where he lies and I say aloud, immediately concerned that he might still be able to hear me, What a war we had! . . . When my mother dies, I'll say to her, as unexpectedly, knowing as little as I'm going to, "I love you." But, to my father, again now, my voice, as though of its own accord, blurts, What a war!
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"Williams's struggle to come to terms with his ambivalence about the necessarily imperfect parents with whom he believes he is forever 'fused in a cosmic entanglement' yields neither great poetry nor particularly compelling reading. Rather, it simply provokes a plaintive son into setting his misgivings about his parents down on paper."
Laura Ciolkowski, New York Times Book Review, 10/8/2000
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