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Other titles in the Poets on Poetry series:

  1. A Concert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry
  2. A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs
  3. All the Rage
  4. AMERIFIL.TXT: A Commonplace Book
  5. Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007
  6. Bardic Deadlines: Reviewing Poetry, 1984-95
  7. Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays
  8. Blue Notes
  9. Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry
  10. Claims for Poetry
  11. Collected prose
  12. Collected Prose
  13. Coming After: Essays on Poetry
  14. Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
  15. Curiosities
  16. Dancing At the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
  17. Death To the Death of Poetry
  18. Dont Ask
  19. Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes
  20. Effluences from the Sacred Caves: More Selected Essays and Reviews
  21. Eloquence and Mere Life: Essays on the Art of Poetry
  22. Essay on Rime with Trial of a Poet
  23. First Loves and Other Adventures
  24. Further Requirements: Interviews, Broadcasts, Statements and Book Reviews, 1952-85
  25. Guns and Boyhood in America: A Memoir of Growing Up in the 50s
  26. Halflife : Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987 (88 Edition)
  27. Line Forms Here
  28. Living Off the Country: Essays on Poetry and Place
  29. Memory Piano:
  30. Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams
  31. Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry
  32. No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose
  33. On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking about Poetry
  34. Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs
  35. Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
  36. Parti-Colored Blocks for a Quilt
  37. Poetics of Dislocation
  38. Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982--88
  39. Poetry and What Is Real
  40. Poetry at One Remove: Essays
  41. Poetry's Old Air
  42. Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
  43. Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays
  44. Quarter Notes: Improvisations and Interviews
  45. Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
  46. Responsive Reading
  47. Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur
  48. Selected Prose
  49. Set in Motion
  50. Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview
  51. Ships Going Into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry
  52. So Ask: Essays, Conversations, and Interviews
  53. Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity
  54. Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray
  55. The Art of Poetry
  56. The Big Question
  57. The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
  58. The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography
  59. The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry
  60. The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language
  61. The Gazer Within
  62. The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
  63. The Metaphysician in the Dark
  64. The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry
  65. The Poetry Blues: Essays and Interviews
  66. The Poetry of Everyday Life
  67. The Spiral of Memory
  68. The Straight Line: Writing on Poetry and Poets
  69. The Uncertain Certainty
  70. The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
  71. To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
  72. Trying to Say It: Outlooks and Insights on How Poems Happen
  73. Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews
  74. Women and Poetry: Truth, Autobiography, and the Shape of the Self
  75. Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir
  76. Words to Create a World: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews of Contemporary Poetry
  77. Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel
  78. Writing Like a Woman
  79. Writing the Australian Crawl
  80. Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry
  81. You Must Revise Your Life

Poetry and Consciousness (Poets on Poetry)

by Charles Kenneth Williams

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Poetry and Consciousness brings together C. K. Williams's meditations on psychology, an epistemology of poems, considerations of poetry and its relations to history and to the novel, exploring the causes and consequences of that fruitful breakdown of language the author calls "narrative dysfunction." A former Guggenheim fellow, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and noted critic, Williams reveals the influences that helped spur and shape the development of his art.

The essays explore the world of poetry and of poets, tracing the curious forces that generate the deeply rooted but richly unfamiliar languages of verse. Williams addresses a broad audience, justifying poetry as a form of embodied consciousness that helps us situate ourselves in history, a concrete form of opportunity and responsibility. The essays examine the very structure of consciousness and suggest tools for living that enable both writers and readers to approach their own situated selves as well as other selves and other poets.

C. K. Williams has authored ten books of poetry, including Flesh and Blood, A Dream of Mind, and The Vigil. He currently teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.

Synopsis:

Poet and teacher C. K. Williams meditates on the world of poetry and of poets, tracing the curious forces that generate the deeply rooted but richly unfamiliar language of verse. Addressing a broad audience, these essays examine the very structure of consciousness and suggest ways to apply the art of poetry for better understanding both self and others.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780472066728
Author:
Williams, C. K.
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press
Author:
Williams, C. K.
Location:
Ann Arbor :
Subject:
General
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
History & Criticism *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
History and criticism
Subject:
Poetry -- History and criticism.
Subject:
General Poetry
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Poets on Poetry (Paperback)
Publication Date:
July 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
144
Dimensions:
8.01x5.44x.47 in. .41 lbs.
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