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New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repair. . . Reality has put itself so solidly before methere's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the worldto us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself.--from "e;The World"e;In his first volume since Repair, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity--the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events--with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years ago. He gazes at a Rembrandt self-portrait, and from it fashions a self-portrait of his own. He ponders an "e;anatomical effigy"e; at the Museum of Mankind, and in so doing "e;dissects"e; our common humanity. Stoking a fire at a house in the country, he recalls a friend who was burned horribly in war, and then turns, with eloquence and authority, to contemporary life during wartime, asking "e;how those with power over us can effect these things, by what cynical reasoning do they pardon themselves."e; The Singing is a direct and resonant book: touching, searching, heartfelt, permanent.The Singing is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Poetry.