{"product_id":"9780374529505","title":"The Singing : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): C. K. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me\u003cbr\u003ethere's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world\u003cbr\u003eto us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself.\u003cbr\u003e--from \"The World\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe awards given to C.K. Williams' two most recent books--a National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Singing \u003c\/i\u003eand a Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e--complete the process by which Williams, long admired for the intensity and formal daring of his work, has come to be recognized as one of the few truly great living American poets. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity--the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events--with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years ago.\u003ci\u003e The Singing\u003c\/i\u003e is a direct and resonant book: searing, hearfelt, permanent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“The poems in C.K. Williams' stunning new collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Singing\u003c\/i\u003e, have a new density and clarity. They are clear about complex things, which one sees as slightly magnified, like pebbles on the bed of a very clear stream. Williams now realizes more than ever that 'your truths will seek you, though you still\/must construct and comprehend them.' He succeeds at this task with a flair that tempers the regret that is the recurring note in these poems, and transforms it into something like joy.” —\u003ci\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner National Book Awards - Winner (2003)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374529505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40673479000270,"sku":"9780374529505","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c3e0fc62-3766-49d7-b10f-918be4184904.jpg?v=1639885090","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374529505","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}