{"product_id":"writers-writing-dying","title":"Writers Writing Dying","description":"Since his first poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eLies\u003c\/i\u003e, C. K. Williams has nurtured an incomparable reputation - as a deeply moral poet, a writer of profound emotion, and a teller of compelling stories. In \u003ci\u003eWriters Writing Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, he retains the essential parts of his poetic identity - his candor, the drama of his verses, the social conscience of his themes - while slyly reinventing himself, re-casting his voice, and in many poems examining the personal - sexual desire, the hubris of youth, the looming specter of death - more bluntly and bravely than ever. \u003cp\u003e In \"Prose,\" he confronts his nineteen year-old self, who despairs of writing poetry, with the question \"How could anyone know this little?\" In a poem of meditation, \"The Day Continues Lovely,\" he radically expands the scale of his attention: \"Meanwhile cosmos roars on with so many voices we can't hear ourselves think. Galaxy on. Galaxy off. Universe on, but another just behind this one . . . \" Even the poet's own purpose is questioned; in \"Draft 23\" he asks, \"Between scribble and slash - are we trying to change the world by changing the words?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e With this wildly vibrant collection - by turns funny, moving, and surprising - Williams proves once again that, he has, in Michael Hofmann's words, \"as much scope and truthfulness as any American poet since Lowell and Berryman.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985506209872,"sku":"9780374293321B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/writers-writing-dying","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}