Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
Repair
by C. K. Williams
Summary
The poems probe relationships, guilt, memory, and the ethics of bearing witness in a fractured social world. Williams writes in long, prose-like lines that accumulate detail with novelistic patience while preserving the urgency of lyric thought. Across the book, mending becomes both a private and public act, suggesting that attentiveness itself is a form of moral repair.
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Historical Context & Significance
Williams developed a signature "long line" that maintains the rhythmic urgency of poetry with novelistic detail.