Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books Falling Ill Falling Ill Last Poems by C.</p><p> K.</p><p> Williams Price: $23.00 (Hardcover) MorePublished: January 03, 2017 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: A capstone to an unforgettable career Over the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C.</p><p> K.</p><p> Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor âthe burden ofbeing alive.â In Falling Ill , his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind's encounter with thebrute fact of the body's decay, the spirit's erasure.</p><p> Written with unsparinglyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems faceunflinchingly -- the dreadful edge of a precipice -- where a futureless future stares back.</p><p> Urgent, unpunctuated, headlong, vertiginous, they race against time to trace the sinuous, startling twists and turns ofconsciousness.</p><p> All is coming apart, taken away, except the brilliant art todescribe it as the end is coming.</p><p> All along is the reassurance of love's… Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say The much lauded poet C.K.</p><p> Williams (the Pulitzer, National Book Awards, you name it) was diagnosed with a cancer of plasma cells and did what he has always done: he wrote poems. "Falling Ill" contains 52 final pieces -- literally "last poems"-- each one precisely 15 lines in length.</p><p> That's one a week perhaps for those with a year or so of facing death in their future.</p><p> Always mutable in his approach, I think the power of this collection will be strongest for those who see Williams here distilled down to his essence.</p><p> But anyone facing mortality -- reportedly, we all are to one degree or another -- willrelish the unsparing but generous attention to detail, the way Williams questions everything from his breathing (is it moreShare This Book About The Author C.</p><p> K.</p><p> Williams MoreC.</p><p> K.</p><p> Williams (1936â2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, Flesh and Blood , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Repair , which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and The Singing , winner of the National Book Award.</p><p> Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly … Release Info List Price: $23.00 (Hardcover) Published: January 03, 2017 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 64 ISBN 10: 0374152209 ISBN 13: 9780374152208labored than yesterday?) to the look in his beloved wife's eyes (which is hopeful, a hope that can almost but not quite mask her panic) to death itself, to whom he mutters and questions and confronts.</p><p> It's philosophical and wry and rages with a beautiful, restrained passion that is all the more moving for being so seemingly controlled. "Focus" is the word that springs to mind again and again when reading this collection and surely a diagnosis of terminal cancer might provide at least that.Cancer is not a gift but Williams has delivered one by looking it squarely in the eye. -- Michael Giltz What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |newsletter |contact us ©2018, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
