A winner of the Pushcart Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award, C.K. Williams has been called "one of the most distinguished poets of his generation," by the Times Literary Supplement. He writes with harrowing psychological insight about war, death, and desire in his poems. His books include The Singing, which won the National Book Award; Repair, winner of a Pulitzer Prize; and Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Wait is his new collection of poems. In On Whitman, Williams examines why Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass remains so important both to the public and to himself. Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky describes the book as “the exuberant, true book of a poet, of two poets: a personal, illuminating, and beautiful demonstration of the truest reading.”