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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt WhitmanIn this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary cri...
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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams's personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman

In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction to Whitman. Beautifully written and rich with insight, this is a book that refreshes our ability to see Whitman in all his power.

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Price: $19.95
Pages: 208
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Writers on Writers
Publication Date: 31 January 2017
ISBN: 9780691176109
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history and criticism
"A winning book. . . . Enlightening and often moving."---Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review
C. K. Williams (1936–2015) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He taught creative writing and translation at Princeton University.