The Singing

C. K. Williams · 2003 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Long-lined, conversational poems turn from an elderly parent and a marriage to the aftermath of the attacks on New York and the singing that people make out of grief. Williams's unrhymed lines run long enough to hold a whole scene in one breath. A lyric collection that places private ageing beside public catastrophe.

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