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Authors: C. K. Williams

Collected Poems

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

LIES
[1969]

A Day for Anne Frank

Even If I Could

Saint Sex

The Long Naked Walk of the Dead

In There

Loss

The Hard Part

The World’s Greatest Tricycle-Rider

The Sorrow

The Man Who Owns Sleep

Before This

Dimensions

To Market

What Is and Is Not

Hood

On the Roof

It Is This Way with Men

Sleeping Over

The Other Side

Of What Is Past

Ashes Ashes We All Fall Down

Trappers

Being Alone

Trash

Giving It Up

For Gail, When I Was Five

Don’t

Just Right

After That

Ten Below

Tails

Sky, Water

Downwards

Shells

Beyond

Patience Is When You Stop Waiting

Faint Praise

Halves

Penance

It Is Teeming

From Now On

I AM THE BITTER NAME
[1972]

I Am the Bitter Name

Keep It

The Spirit the Triumph

Madder

Poor Hope

Bringing It Home

The Little Shirt

Clay out of Silence

Innings

Becoming Somebody Else

Hounding Mercy

What Did the Man Do with the Clouds?

The Matter

Refuge, Serpent-Riders

Flat

A Poem for the Governments

Another Dollar

The Beginning of April

This Is a Sin

The Undead

Then the Brother of the Wind

The Next to the Last Poem about God

Acids

They Warned Him Then They Threw Him Away

Ribbons

The Rampage

The Nut

Yours

The Nickname of Hell

Bad Mouth

This Day

The Rabbit Fights for His Life The Leopard Eats Lunch

Cellophane

Inches

The Sting

The Last

In the Heart of the Beast

THE LARK. THE THRUSH. THE STARLING. (POEMS FROM ISSA)
[1983]

WITH IGNORANCE
[1977]

The Sanctity

Spit

Toil

The Last Deaths

The Race of the Flood

Bob

Bread

Near the Haunted Castle

The Cave

Hog Heaven

Blades

Friends

The Shade

With Ignorance

TAR
[1983]

From My Window

My Mother’s Lips

The Dog

The Color of Time

Flight

The Gift

On Learning of a Friend’s Illness

Combat

Floor

Waking Jed

Neglect

Still Life

The Regulars

Soon

The Gas Station

Tar

One of the Muses

FLESH AND BLOOD
[1987]

I

Elms

Hooks

Nostalgia

Artemis

Guatemala: 1964

Herakles

First Desires

The Dirty Talker: D Line, Boston

Repression

Como

One Morning in Brooklyn

Self-Knowledge

Alzheimer’s: The Wife

Alzheimer’s: The Husband

The Critic

New Car

Conscience

Noise: Sinalunga

Anger

Even So

Drought

End of Drought

Easter

Girl Meets Boy

Bishop Tutu’s Visit to the White House: 1984

Experience

Resentment

Mornings: Catherine

The Ladder

War

Greed

The Past

Ice

The Modern

The Mistress

The Lover

Religious Thought

Carpe Diem

Twins

The Telephone

Failure

Crime

Fat

Fame

USOCA

Eight Months

Junior High School Concert: Salle Rossini

The Prodigy

Souls

Regret

Cowboys

The Marriage

Fifteen

Sixteen: Tuscany

Thinking Thought

Jews

Snow: I

Snow: II

Gardens

The Star

Kin

Fire

Dignity

Fast Food

The Orchid

The City in the Hills

From the Next Book by (…)

Native Americans

Work

Gratitude

Will

Pregnant

Peace

Some of Us

Two: Resurrections

Men

Shame

On the Other Hand

The Fountain

The Latin Quarter

Rungs

Normality

The Storm

Blame

Medusa

Rush Hour

Philadelphia: 1978

Midas

The Park

Travelers

Second Persons: Café de L’Abbaye

The Lens

The Body

Racists

The Dream

Dawn

II

Reading: Winter

Reading: The Subway

Reading: The Bus

Reading: The Gym

Reading: The Cop

Reading: Early Sorrow

Suicide: Elena

Suicide: Ludie

Suicide: Anne

Love: Youth

Love: Beginnings

Love: Habit

Love: Loss

Love: Sight

Love: Petulance

Love: Intimacy

Love: Shyness

Love: Wrath

Love: The Dance

Good Mother: The Métro

Good Mother: The Plane

Good Mother: The Car

Good Mother: Out

Good Mother: The Street

Good Mother: The Bus

Good Mother: Home

Vehicle: Conscience

Vehicle: Forgetting

Vehicle: Insecurity

Vehicle: Indolence

Vehicle: Circles

Vehicle: Absence

Vehicle: Violence

III

Le Petit Salvié

A DREAM OF MIND
[1992]

I

When

The Vessel

Allies: According to Herodotus

Harm

The Insult

Child Psychology

Chapter Eleven

The Loneliness

Scar

II
SOME OF THE FORMS OF JEALOUSY

Signs

The Cautionary

Baby Talk

The Question

Meditation

Politics

Pillow Talk

Ethics

The Mirror

The Call

The Image

The Idyll

The Silence

Soliloquies

III

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