{"product_id":"falling-ill-last-poems-paperback","title":"Falling Ill: Last Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. K. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA capstone to an unforgettable career\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor \"the burden of being alive.\" In \u003ci\u003eFalling Ill\u003c\/i\u003e, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind's encounter with the brute fact of the body's decay, the spirit's erasure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly \"the dreadful edge of a precipice\" 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 love's close presence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are no easy resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep interrogation--a dialogue between the agonized \"I\" in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive \"you\" of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliams's \u003ci\u003eFalling Ill\u003c\/i\u003e takes its place among the enduring works of literature about death and departure.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.1 x 8.2 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350543253753,"sku":"9780374537531","price":15.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NytNajBwL2pjUWx2ajdDQ1NZUFlqdz09.webp?v=1769786779","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/falling-ill-last-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}