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Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

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Born: November 4, 1936
Died: September 20, 2015 (aged 78)
Bio: Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987.
Known for:
  1. The Singing (2003)
  2. Collected Poems (2006)
  3. A Dream of Mind
  4. Flesh and Blood (1987)
  5. Misgivings

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