{"product_id":"repair-c-k-williams-9780374527068","title":"Repair: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlways, These gigantic inconceivables.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlways, What will have been done to me?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so we don our mental armor, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eflex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA violent alertness, the muscularity of risk, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethough still the secret inward cry: What else, what more?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from Risk \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepair \u003c\/i\u003eis body work in C. K. Williams's sensual poems, but it is also an imaginative treatment of the consternations that interrupt life's easy narrative. National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Williams keeps the self in repair despite love, death, social disorder, and the secrets that separate and join intimates. These forty poems experiment with form but maintain what Alan Williamson has heralded Williams for having so steadily developed from French influences: the poetry of the sentence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRepair\u003c\/i\u003e is a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry and the winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. K. Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374527067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374527068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.48w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pulitzer Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2000 pg. 28","brand":"C. K. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996741927167,"sku":"9780374527068","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8dfb447-2332-4734-b61b-3978f4b3afc1.jpg?v=1683343428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/repair-c-k-williams-9780374527068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}