{"product_id":"williams-ck-falling-ilpb","title":"Williams, CK: Falling Ill: Last Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eFSG, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 23, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A capstone to an unforgettable career\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOver the past half century, the great shape-shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor \"the burden of being alive.\" In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind's encounter with the brute fact of the body's decay, the spirit's erasure.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten with unsparing lyricism and relentless discursive logic, these brave poems face unflinchingly \"the dreadful edge of a precipice\" where a futureless future stares back. Urgent, unpunctuated, headlong, vertiginous, they race against time to trace the sinuous, startling twists and turns of consciousness. All is coming apart, taken away, except the brilliant art to describe it as the end is coming. All along is the reassurance of love's close presence.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere are no easy resolutions, false consolations. Like unanswered prayers, they are poems of deep interrogation--a dialogue between the agonized \"I\" in its harrowing here-and-nowness and the elusive \"you\" of the beloved who flickers achingly just out of reach.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWilliams's Falling Ill takes its place among the enduring works of literature about death and departure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679358300183,"sku":"9780374537531","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_7a8efea6-922d-4c40-a9db-7241d74083ec.jpg?v=1697662044","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/williams-ck-falling-ilpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}