The Vigil: Poems

by C.K. Williams

Book Overview

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

The Vigil, which first appeared in 1997, finds contemporary American master-poet C. K. Williams taking a more reflective and empathetic turn in his work. As Jonathan Aaron wrote in The Boston Globe: A matchless explorer of the burdens of consciousness, Williams has always written brilliantly about human pain, that which we inflict upon others and upon ourselves, and that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374525544
• ISBN13: 9780374525545
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"