From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides.
This book includes an introduction by Martha Nussbaum.
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Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets
""Always, "These gigantic inconceivables.""
"Always, "What will have been done to me?""
"And so we don our mental armor, "
"flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should."
"A violent[...]
New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of "Repair"
. . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me
there's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world
to us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself.
--from "The World"
The award[...]
In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to "Leaves of Grass" as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic 'continues to inspi[...]
Business: A Practical Introduction provides the best information that appeals to a wide range of interest, including 11 areas of interest that's important to readers like youâand the future companies you may be working for.[...]
Kött och blod är ett märkligt aktstycke där vardagens brutala möten och tillkortakommanden slipats ner till de för C. K. Williams så typiska åttaradigarna. I dessa dikter möter vi ett brokigt persongalleri av barn och gamlingar, av missanpassade och krigsveteraner, älskande och utslagna,[...]