C. K. Williams (1936–2015)
Author of Repair: Poems
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
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Works by C. K. Williams
Repair: Poems 2 copies
The Woman at No. 13: An edge-of-your-seat claustrophobic and tense psychological crime thriller (2021) 1 copy
Flowers for the Dead 1 copy
New & Selected Poems 1 copy
Associated Works
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contributor — 302 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 152 copies
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Contributor — 73 copies
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- Legal name
- Williams, Charles Kenneth
- Birthdate
- 1936-11-04
- Date of death
- 2015-09-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- Place of death
- Hopewell, New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- Newark, New Jersey, USA (birth)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Paris, France - Education
- University of Pennsylvania
Bucknell University - Occupations
- poet
professor (college) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2003)
Princeton University - Awards and honors
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2005)
PEN/Voelcker Award (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1999)
Pushcart Prize - Short biography
- Short Autobiography
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