Overview
A capstone to an unforgettable career
Over the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poetās task: to record with candor and ardor āthe burden of being alive.ā In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mindās encounter with the brute fact of the bodyās decay, the spiritās erasure.
Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly āthe dreadful edge of a precipiceā 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 loveās close presence.
Here are no easy resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep interrogationāa dialogue between the agonized āIā in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive āyouā of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach.
Williamsās Falling Ill takes its place among the enduring works of literature about death and departure.
This book title, Falling Ill (Last Poems) - 9780374537531, ISBN: 9780374537531, by C. K. Williams, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 23, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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