Repair

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. 70, [2]. Pictorial wraps. Cover painting by Jed Mauger Williams. Published simultaneously in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Signed by Author to title page.

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, as well as the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 1999 National Book Award Finalist. His eighth book. An intimate collection of near-forty poems exploring the process of "repairing" from love, death, social decay, and other tragedies. Author teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University. "[Williams's] work reflects the moral self-questioning of Herbert, the plain-spokenness and the yearning toward nature of Wordsworth, the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart of the later Yeats." –Brian Phillips, New Republic