Two Poems
by Miller Williams • from Time and the Tilting Earth • Louisiana State University Press
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Miller Williams
Miller Williams is the author, editor, or translator of thirty-four books, including fourteen volumes of poetry.
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Time and the Tilting Earth"The later Williams appears more philosophical and meditative, but the poems are delivered with the same familiar, knowing wink." (Billy Collins)
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"The style as well as the contents of kayak reflected the man. The magazine was filled with melodramatic engravings and illustrations clipped from nineteenth century books and magazines. Several of these were usually joined in a collage and carried a witty line or two of dialogue or commentary, which ironically commented on the illustration, or had some wittily incisive parallel to current events... The selection of work alternated between surrealist, deep image, or political poems, or all three at once. [George] Hitchcock's rejection slips were florid sentences printed at the bottom of one of his seemingly endless selections of nineteenth century illustrations. His editorial method was to accept any piece that appealed to him on first reading. The rest he sent back to the would-be contributor within the week, or, in a typically flamboyant flourish I witnessed several times, he would cast an unacceptable manuscript into the nearest wastebasket. (He would always retrieve the discarded manuscript later and return it to the sender.)"
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