Wait

by C.K. Williams

Book Overview

Wait finds C. K. Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by "the conscience-beast, who harries me," and "riven by idiot vigor, voracious as the youth I was for whom everything was going too slowly, too slowly." Poems about animals and rural life are set hard by poems about shrapnel in Iraq and sudden desire on the Paris M tro; grateful invocations of Herbert and Hopkins give way to fierce negotiations with the shades of Coleridge, Dostoevsky,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374285918
• ISBN13: 9780374285913
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.2"