THE WAYS WE TOUCH: POEMS (Illinois Poetry (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

WILLIAMS, MILLER

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252023625 ISBN 13: 9780252023620

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1997

Synopsis

      Includes
        "Of History and Hope,"
        the 1997 Presidential Inaugural Poem
      When Miller Williams
        read his Inaugural Poem, "Of History and Hope," to a world-wide
        audience in January, his proverbial "fifteen minutes of fame"
        lasted far less--somewhere between three and four minutes. That was long
        enough to make a big impact on many. Said poet Paul Zimmer, one of the
        millions in his viewing audience, "I came up out of my Lazy-Boy and
        cheered loudly!"
      Williams is an
        American original whose poems have been praised for both the elegance
        of their style and the simplicity of their language, for their wonderful
        humor and genuine passion. The works in his newest collection, The
        Ways We Touch, may be nostalgic or challenging, humorous or full of
        moral fortitude; always Williams speaks with the kind of insight that
        rises from wisdom and experience.
      Praise for Williams's
        earlier work:
      "Miller
        Williams is one of those writers whose books drag me snorkeling happily
        along. Happy as a pig among truffles, I hurry to the next treasure."
        -- William Stafford
      "Most contemporary
        poets might well go to him for lessons in the art of speaking plainly
        in disciplined lines alive with emotional energy." -- X. J. Kennedy
      "Better
        than almost anything else being published." -- Donald Justice
 

About this title

About the Author:

Miller Williams is University Professor of English and Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas and director of the University of Arkansas Press.

Review:

10,000 Year Old Tree Discovered Shades Two And Half Acres
71 South
The Affair
Agreeing
As You Both Shall Live
At The Christening Of An Infant The Mind Of The Young Preacher Wanders
Autopsy
Ballad Of A Little Delta Town
Buying And Selling
Caution
A Christmas Poem
Compassion
Dust
For All Our Great-grandchildren
For J. William Fulbright On The Day Of His Death
God
A Good Son
He Shuts His Eyes For The Layman's Long Prayer About Lust ...
Her, Though
How It's Born In Us To Understand That ... Two Sides To Every Question
If Ever There Was One
It Came To Pass On A Planet Third From A Minor Sun In A Solar System
A Lesson On The Twentieth Century
The Light In The Eyes
Listen
Memory
Money
A Note To The English Poets Of The Seventeenth Century
Of History And Hope
The Office Party
An Old Man Leaves His Church For The Last Time
On Word That The Old Children's Stories Have Been Brought Up To Date
Origami
Personals
Quantum Theory Made Simple
Romance
Self-control
The Sissy
A Story
A Thought As It Turns
Truth And Truthfulness
A Walk In The Woods
War And Peace
Wide Place In The Road
Woman With Dog
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0252023625
• ISBN 13: 9780252023620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88