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The controversial piece is characteristic of Lord’s style. Her oeuvre is polemical, iconoclastic, and highly visceral. The exhibitions she has curated, with titles like “Pervert,” “Trash,” and “Gender, fucked” appropriate...
This awareness of his age, his accomplishments, as well as his shortcomings recurs throughout the collection. Williams’ reflections on his work more often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have...
Herbert, Hopkins, Goethe, and Dostoevsky are only a few of the voices that C.K. Williams conjures in his new collection, “Wait.” In one poem, he applies fertile Hopkins-like music to descriptions of dust and destruction, while in another he re-imagines a scene...
Williams’ politically motivated poems, which display his deep engagement and discouragement with contemporary affairs, are nevertheless not the most compelling ones in his collection. Rather, the most riveting moments in “Wait” come from Williams’ autobiographical ruminations, which give his reader glimpses...
In no poem is the evolution of self-doubt more apparent than in “I,” in which Williams directly addresses the idea of lyric subjectivity. After referring to Goethe as “One of those ‘I’s who aren?...