Love about Love

In Love About Love, C.K. Williams has created a wholly new context for poems written over a lifetime. Culled from all of his previous collections, the poems have been reorganized by the author, sometimes radically, into a sequence that throws startling fresh light on them. With characteristic intensity and directness, Williams explores the many faces of his subject--passion, affection, sexuality, loneliness, jealousy, loss--in poems remarkable for their range and ingenuity. What emerges is a complex and surprising self-portrait-as-lover from earliest childhood longings to the hindsight of mature experience. Love About Love is an unsentimental and unsparing self-assessment by a poet writing at the height of his powers, a vital study of the evolution of a consciousness that is truth-telling, passionate, and profound.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ausable Press
Published: 01/01/2001
ISBN: 9780967266831
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.95w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2001 pg. 112