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Reading: Poetry C.K. Williams

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C.K. Williams found his poetic voice in the '60s — outraged, like many of his contemporaries, over the Vietnam war and racial segregation. But Williams' lengthy phrases immediately stood out from his peers' dogmatic polemics. In the decades since, his poetry has only strengthened. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and two National Book Awards, for Repair and The Singing. Williams' political bent remains subtle and reflective; in a poem published last year in the New Yorker, he describes the United States — a ship "stripped of anything it might still have of worth" and moored across the street from an IKEA in Philadelphia.

– Joel Withrow

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