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Article: Poetry and Consciousness.(Review)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Poetry and Consciousness, by C. K. Williams. The University of Michigan Press. $14.95.
C. K. Williams's familiar long lines create tremendous space within his poems. From beginning to end, a poem might cross remarkable distances, its roomy stanzas opening a world of association and resonance, lines unreeling from an observed fact or remembered scene to deepened understanding of the way things are, the way things were. Williams uses the line rather than the sentence as the primary unit of meaning, rarely running a thought on from line to line, let alone between stanzas. But there is another aspect to this breadth, born more of an imaginative than a formal ...