C. K. Williams (1936–2015)
Forfatter af Repair: Poems
Om forfatteren
Charles Kenneth Williams was born on November 4, 1936 in Newark, New Jersey. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. His collections of poetry include Lies, The Last Deaths, Collected Poems, and Selected Later Poems. He won the National Book Critics vis mere Circle Award in 1987 for Flesh and Blood, the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for Repair in 2000, and the National Book Award for The Singing in 2003. In addition to writing poetry, he translated plays by Sophocles and poems by Adam Zagajewski and Francis Ponge. His critical essays were collected in Poetry and Consciousness and In Time: Poets, Poems, and the Rest. He also wrote On Whitman and a memoir entitled Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself. He taught in Princeton University's creative writing program from 1996 until shortly before his death. He died from multiple myeloma on September 20, 2015 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af C. K. Williams
Interrogation II after the painting by Leon Golub 2 eksemplarer
Repair: Poems 2 eksemplarer
The Poet (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 eksemplar
C. K. Williams: The Bacchae of Euripides : A New Version (Paperback); 1990 Edition (1672) 1 eksemplar
The Woman at No. 13: An edge-of-your-seat claustrophobic and tense psychological crime thriller (2021) 1 eksemplar
Flowers for the Dead 1 eksemplar
Invisible Mending: The Best of C. K. Williams 1 eksemplar
Tender (in Tin House 1 - SPILLMAN) 1 eksemplar
New & Selected Poems 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Bidragyder — 301 eksemplarer
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Bidragyder — 152 eksemplarer
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Bidragyder — 73 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Williams, Charles Kenneth
- Fødselsdato
- 1936-11-04
- Dødsdag
- 2015-09-20
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Dødssted
- Hopewell, New Jersey, USA
- Bopæl
- Newark, New Jersey, USA (birth)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Paris, France - Uddannelse
- University of Pennsylvania
Bucknell University - Erhverv
- poet
professor (college) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2003)
Princeton University - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2005)
PEN/Voelcker Award (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
Pushcart Prize - Kort biografi
- Short Autobiography
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