{"product_id":"repair-poems-9780374527068","title":"Repair: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Always, \"These gigantic inconceivables.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlways, \"What will have been done to me?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so we don our mental armor, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eflex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA violent alertness, the muscularity of risk, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethough still the secret inward cry: What else, what more?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Risk\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepair \u003c\/i\u003eis body work in C. K. Williams's sensual poems, but it is also an imaginative treatment of the consternations that interrupt life's easy narrative. National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Williams keeps the self in repair despite love, death, social disorder, and the secrets that separate and join intimates. These forty poems experiment with form but maintain what Alan Williamson has heralded Williams for having so steadily developed from French influences: \"the poetry of the sentence.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e is a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry and the winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. K. Williams \u003c\/b\u003e(1936-2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, \u003ci\u003eFlesh and Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and \u003ci\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, \u003ci\u003eOn Whitman\u003c\/i\u003e; a memoir, \u003ci\u003eMisgivings\u003c\/i\u003e; and two books of essays, \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Consciousness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIn Time: Poets, Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Rest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243509940498,"sku":"9780374527068","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f0bbe853-8c70-45a9-adc3-70893f7370ec.jpg?v=1745866725","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/repair-poems-9780374527068","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}