The Vigil

The Vigil Poems

Paperback (04 Mar 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

The Vigil, which first appeared in 1997, finds contemporary American master-poet C. K. Williams taking a more reflective and empathetic turn in his work. As Jonathan Aaron wrote in The Boston Globe: "A matchless explorer of the burdens of consciousness, Williams has always written brilliantly about human pain, that which we inflict upon others and upon ourselves, and that which we experience in dreading what we're fated for. In The Vigil Williams affirms the uncanny resiliency of love as solace for pain--what he calls 'these invisible links that allure, these transfigurations even of anguish that hold us' ('The Neighbor'). It is a mystery he has probed before, but never with quite such sympathy and candor."

Book information

ISBN: 9780374525545
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Imprint: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
Language: English
Number of pages: 96
Weight: 159g
Height: 231mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 7mm