Product Description: 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...read more

Seven stories and a novella explore the inner life of young man who grows up in a small southern town and ends up in war-torn Central American country. (Story Collections) (view table of contents)

"Some Jazz a While", the eagerly anticipated collected poems of one of America's best-loved poets, gathers Miller Williams's most representative work and adds some new pieces as well. This generous collection welcomes newcomers as well as longtime admirers of Williams's trademark style: a compact and straightforward language, a masterful command of form, and an unsentimental approach to his subject matter. Williams treats the mundane interchanges, the lingering uncertainties, the missed opportunities, and the familiar sense of loss that mark daily life with the surgeon's deft touch. An American original, Miller Williams involves the reader's emotions and imagination with an effective illusion of plain talk, continually rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language we speak and by which we imagine. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Winner of the prestigious Poets' Prize for 1990, Miller Williams is one of America's most accomplished and productive contemporary poets.  In this collection, we find the same wit, intelligence, wisdom, and humanity that readers of poetry have come to expect of Williams...read more

Poems deal with teachers, mortality, nature, storytelling, work, love, evil, religion, and travel

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Poems deal with living in the midst of death, the permanence of memory and art, aging, poverty, and wealth

Explains the basic elements of poetry, and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences

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Product Description: Collection of poetry by Miller Williams. Signed by author with dedication on title page. A very good softcover copy. Light wear. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. NOT ex-library. 59pgs. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0807103780...read more

Product Description: The Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 celebrated France's recovery from the humiliating defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, and Gustave Eiffel's thousand-foot tower represented the glory of that achievement.  But the iron tower was a stunning accomplishment in its own right, the tallest structure made by man...read more