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Elegies for the Water
Philip Lee Williams
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Description for Elegies for the Water
A collection of poems that are intertwined with the natural world of the poet's Georgia country home. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
In this collection, Philip Lee Williams shows again his well-known ability to combine the arresting image with the moment of sudden insight. Deeply intertwined with the natural world of his Georgia country home, Williams' poems are testaments both to time-tested forms and the free impulse of contemporary verse. While his poems are often clear and sharp as a winter stream, he also writes with a healthy respect for the dense, iconoclastic masters of twentieth-century poetry and from centuries before, examining order and disorder in the human and natural worlds with the kind of fascinated and passionate scrutiny he has shown ... Read more
In this collection, Philip Lee Williams shows again his well-known ability to combine the arresting image with the moment of sudden insight. Deeply intertwined with the natural world of his Georgia country home, Williams' poems are testaments both to time-tested forms and the free impulse of contemporary verse. While his poems are often clear and sharp as a winter stream, he also writes with a healthy respect for the dense, iconoclastic masters of twentieth-century poetry and from centuries before, examining order and disorder in the human and natural worlds with the kind of fascinated and passionate scrutiny he has shown ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Mercer University Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780881461428
SKU
V9780881461428
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About Philip Lee Williams
Philip Lee Williams is the author of twelve books and a chapbook, and his work has won many awards, including the 2004 Michael Shaara Award for his novel A Distant Flame. In 2007, he was named winner of the Georgia Governor's Award in the Humanities. He is an adjunct professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia and lives ... Read more
Reviews for Elegies for the Water
Elegies for Water is a beautiful and mature book of poems steeped in the joys and mysteries of the natural world. At the end of a dirt road near Wildcat Creek, the world has been speaking to Philip Lee Williams, and the poems he has brought us from this place are lessons in the art of being human. They operate ... Read more