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Born in 1936 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Clark, LaVerne Harrell, editor, Focus 101, Heidelberg Graphics (Chico, CA), 1979.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 33, 1985, Volume 56, 1989.
  • Contemporary Poets, fifth edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1991.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
  • Hamilton, Ian, editor. Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Williams, C.K., Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2000.

PERIODICALS

  • America, October 30, 1993, Andrew J. Krivak, "Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets," p. 17.
  • American Poetry Review, May-June, 1994, Alan Williamson, "Poems including Politics," p. 17.
  • Booklist, June 15, 1992, Frances Woods, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 1803; October 1, 1994, Elizabeth Gunderson, review of Selected Poems, p. 232; December 1, 1996, Ray Olson, review of The Vigil, p. 640; January 1, 2004, review of The Singing, p. 774.
  • Boston Globe, September 12, 1999, Cathleen Calbert, review of Repair, p. C1.
  • Critical Survey, May, 1997, Maurice Rutherford, review of The Vigil, p. 164.
  • Economist, September 6, 1997, review of Vigil, p. S19; March 18, 2000, "Whose Voice Is It Anyway?," p. 14.
  • Georgia Review, winter, 1983, p. 894; fall, 1993, Judith Kitchen, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 578.
  • Hudson Review, winter, 1988, Robert McDowell, review of Flesh and Blood, pp. 680-681; summer, 1995, Thomas M. Disch, review of Selected Poems, p. 339.
  • Library Journal, October 1, 1983, review of Tar, p. 1880; May 1, 1987, Thom Tammaro, review of Flesh and Blood, p. 72; June 1, 1990, p. 130; May 1, 1992, Louis McKee, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 86; June 1, 1999, Rochelle Ratner, review of Repair, p. 120; March 1, 2000, David Kirby, review of Misgivings, p. 92; January 1, 2001, Fred Muratori, review of Love about Love, p. 112.
  • Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1993, Allan M. Jalon, "The Poet as Witness," p. 30.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 22, 1984, Clayton Eshleman, review of Tar, p. 3.
  • Nation, June 18, 1977, James Atlas, review of With Ignorance, pp. 763-766; May 30, 1987, Dan Bogen, review of Flesh and Blood, pp. 734-736.
  • New Republic, August 17, 1992, Edward Hirsch, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 46; January 25, 1993, Robert Pinsky, review of Canvas, p. 43; September 18, 2000, Brian Phillips, review of Repair and Misgivings, p. 42.
  • New Statesman & Society, December 23, 1988, Robert Sheppard, review of Flesh and Blood, p. 36; December 4, 1992, David Herd, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 40.
  • New Yorker, January 11, 1993, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 111.
  • New York Times, October 4, 2000, Alan Riding, "An American Bard in Paris Stokes the Poetic Home Fires," p. E1.
  • New York Times Book Review, November 27, 1983, Louis Simpson, review of Tar, p. 13; August 23, 1987, Edward Hirsch, review of Flesh and Blood, p. 20; March 13, 1988, p. 34; November 15, 1992, William Logan, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 15; October 8, 2000, Laura Ciolkowski, review of Misgivings, p. 23.
  • Parnassus, August, 1990, Sherod Santos, reviews of Poems: 1963-1983 and Flesh and Blood, p. 115; fall, 1993, Bill Marx, review of Canvas, p. 100.
  • Partisan Review, summer, 1991, Michael Collier, review of Poems: 1963-1983, p. 565.
  • Poetry, November, 1971, M.L. Rosenthal, review of Lies, pp. 99-104; February, 1973, Jascha Kessler, review of I Am the Bitter Name, pp. 292-303; September, 1984, Bruce Bawer, review of Tar, pp. 353-355; February, 1988, Linda Gregerson, review of Flesh and Blood, pp. 431-433; April, 1989, J.D. McClatchy, review of Poems: 1963-1983, p. 29; December, 1993, Ben Howard, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 164; May, 1997, Bruce Murphy, review of Selected Poems, p. 95; August, 1999, Christian Whitman, review of Poetry and Consciousness, p. 286; August, 2001, Ian Tromp, reviews of Poetry and Consciousness and Repair, p. 288; October, 2004, Dan Chiasson and Averill Curdy, review of The Singing Poems, p. 53.
  • Publishers Weekly, July 22, 1983, review of Tar, p. 126; May 11, 1992, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 58; August 29, 1994, review of Selected Poems, p. 66; November 25, 1996, review of The Vigil, p. 71; March 13, 2000, review of Misgivings, p. 72; October 27, 2003, review of The Singing, p. 59.
  • Salmagundi, spring-summer, 1997, Frederick Pollack, review of The Vigil, p. 205.
  • Shenandoah, summer, 1970, Alan Williamson, review of Lies, pp. 89-93.
  • Times Literary Supplement, December 2, 1988, Paul Muldoon, review of Poems: 1963-1983, p. 1342; January 20, 1989, Michael Hofmann, review of Flesh and Blood, p. 59; February 12, 1993, Lawrence Norfolk, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 11; October 8, 1993, Michael Parker, review of Canvas; October 3, 1997, Jamie McKendrick, review of The Vigil, p. 25; March 10, 2000, William Logan, review of Repair, p. 23.
  • TriQuarterly, winter, 1988, Reginald Gibbons, review of Flesh and Blood, pp. 224-225; spring-summer, 1991, Alan Shapiro, "In Praise of the Impure," p. 5.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, winter, 1992, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 27; winter, 1993, review of A Dream of Mind, p. S27.
  • Washington Post, July 23, 2000, Debra Dickerson, "The Parent Trap," p. X06.
  • Washington Post Book World, January 3, 1993, Michael Dirda, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 10; July 30, 1995, Stephen Dobyns, review of Selected Poems, p. 8.
  • Western Humanities Review, spring, 1970, Fred Moramarco, review of Lies, pp. 201-207; winter, 1973, John Vernon, review of I Am the Bitter Name, pp. 101-10.
  • World Literature Today, autumn, 1989, Michael Leddy, review of Poems: 1963-1983, p. 685; winter, 1989, Ashley Brown, review of Flesh and Blood, p. 104; autumn, 1992, Joachim T. Baer, review of Canvas, p. 746; spring, 1993, Bernard F. Dick, review of A Dream of Mind, p. 387; autumn, 1997, Ashley Brown, review of The Vigil, p. 794.
  • Yale Review, October 1999, Carol Muske, review of Repair, p. 154.

ONLINE

  • Boston Review, http://bostonreview.net/ (February 1, 2001), Richard Howard, review of The Vigil.
  • Online News Hour, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ (April 19, 2000), Jim Lehrer, interview with C.K. Williams.
  • Princeton University News, http://www.princeton.edu/ (February 1, 2001), author profile.