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Time and the Tilting Earth - by Miller Williams (Paperback)

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  • Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest.
  • About the Author: Miller Williams is the author, editor, or translator of thirty-four books, including fourteen volumes of poetry, Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms, and Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It.
  • 64 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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About the Book



Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy," he describes his own poetry perfectly. This latest effort from Williams provides a collection of rhythmical poems in conversational language about the nature of human beings and the world in which we live.



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Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy," he describes his own poetry perfectly. This latest effort from Williams provides a collection of rhythmical poems in conversational language about the nature of human beings and the world in which we live. In poems covering topics such as science, religion, and marriage, Williams displays in plentiful measures the qualities that have made him a cherished and long-admired poet: mordant and trenchant wit, expert, light-fingered technique, quick understanding of character, and skillful use of irony. In Time and the Tilting Earth, each poem, says the author, begins as the poet's and ends as the reader's.



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'The light is a little dimmer, ' according to one poem by the mature Miller Williams, but plenty bright enough to allow for another book of marvelously witty, engaging, and skillfully crafted poems. The later Williams appears more philosophical and meditative, but the poems are delivered with the same familiar, knowing wink.--Billy Collins

Witty, wry, rueful, irreverently reverent, and wise beyond all boundary, Time and the Tilting Earth is a proud addition to this poet's work--and to the canon of our literature.--Fred Chappell



About the Author



Miller Williams is the author, editor, or translator of thirty-four books, including fourteen volumes of poetry, Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms, and Making a Poem: Some Thoughts about Poetry and the People Who Write It. Among his many honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship in Poetry from Harvard University, the Poets' Prize, the Prix de Rome for Literature, and the Academy Award for Literature, the latter two both from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was inaugural poet for Bill Clinton's second swearing-in as president, and he is the father of three-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.48 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .19 Inches (D)
Weight: .26 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: American
Genre: Poetry
Number of Pages: 64
Publisher: LSU Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Miller Williams
Language: English
Street Date: September 15, 2008
TCIN: 91570464
UPC: 9780807133538
Item Number (DPCI): 247-30-6213
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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