It's easy to figure just who poet of conscience and conversation CK Williams is talking about as he captures, over and over again, the voice of faith, intuition or resistance and then releases it from its tiger cage, broken moment or hidden room. In poem The Singing, he acknowledges “the equation we made/the conventions to which we were condemned,” then hopes there’s some unseen someone there to rectify the fear, the war, the history of a moment. It’s Williams himself, one of the most distinguished and political poets of his generation, a writer who for forty years made big and overwhelming into small, intimate and profound. Winner of every prize there is, author of dozens of volumes of poetry, translation, and criticism, Williams arrives at Chapman University for an afternoon talk and evening reading—we hope from his newest, Writers Writing Dying—as part of the school’s outstanding Tabula Poetica series.
Tue., Oct. 15, 2 p.m., 2013
