Living on the Surface: New and Selected Poems

By Miller Williams

Book Overview

Poems deal with teachers, mortality, nature, storytelling, work, love, evil, religion, and travel.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807115738
• ISBN13: 9780807115732
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

One of the BEST!

I discovered this great poet at random in a library. Williams poetry is graceful and brutally honest all at once. Two must read poems are "The Associate Professor Delivers an Exhortation to His Failing Students" and "He Speaks to His Arguing Friends and to Himself". This is a collection to be cherished.

A Great Introduction to a Master

Miller Williams, the inaugaral poet, is a writer who offers more than meets the eye. His attention to detail, form, and motion are unsurpassed. This is a great introduction to his work, which spans over decades. Some of the notable poems in this collection are "Thinking of Bill, Dead of AIDS" and "Let Me Tell You," a poem which offers some of Williams's theories on writing.