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casparb's review
Ok apparently I picked a terrible place to start because this is neither popular nor representative of CK Williams' works but I had a lovely time with it all the same!!
So these prose poems are a fun little contrast to my recent strivings with James Tate since JT writes something like magical realism but perhaps you'd describe as absurdist-americana-realism. CKW here is something closer to realism but it feels such a disservice to call them that they're autobiographical they're beautiful and breaking & I need to read more of him sooner rather than later. Talent hums.
It's a long collection but if that last poem Again doesn't hit hard I don't know what to say o my poor unpeeling heart
So these prose poems are a fun little contrast to my recent strivings with James Tate since JT writes something like magical realism but perhaps you'd describe as absurdist-americana-realism. CKW here is something closer to realism but it feels such a disservice to call them that they're autobiographical they're beautiful and breaking & I need to read more of him sooner rather than later. Talent hums.
It's a long collection but if that last poem Again doesn't hit hard I don't know what to say o my poor unpeeling heart
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