Tuesday, July 27, 2010

News at Eleven: "It's as though his actual physical brain

went through some incredible mutation, as though--a little science fiction, why not?--aliens had transported him up to their spaceship and put him down again with a new mind, a new poetry apparatus," [C.K.] Williams writes. "It is really that crazy."

This kind of rave, from a proper Princeton University professor, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle award, isn't atypical, as loopy as it sounds.

from The Plain Dealer: Fall into Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass,' and let poet C.K. Williams accompany you

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