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 ...
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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 in many earlier books.
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Add this copy of Elegies for the Water to cart. $24.00, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Mercer University Press.
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Good. Dust jacket missing. First edition. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Author's inscription on front free end page. The binding is tight; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Add this copy of Elegies for the Water. Poems to cart. $32.50, like new condition, Sold by Thomas Dorn, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Canton, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Macon: Mercer University Press (2009). 1st ed..
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2009, Macon: Mercer University Press (2009). 1st ed.
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Macon: Mercer University Press (2009). 1st ed.
Published:
2009
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English
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As New. Dust Jacket Included. Inscribed by Author(s) 8vo. 102 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's original blue cloth binding. Warmly INSCRIBED to Bill (Starr) on the front free endpaper. Bill Starr, author and reviewer, has been at the very forefront for over three decades of advancing Southern Literature, first as Book Review Editor for The State in Columbia, SC for which he wrote hundreds of insightful, intelligent reviews for both emerging as well as established writers, and more recently as the Executive Director of Georgia Center for the Book in Decatur, GA. This is a tight, fine book in a bright, fine DJ.
