“Poems
have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different
kind of music of necessity. That's, in a
way, the hardest thing about writing poetry; waiting for that music, and
sometimes you never know if it's going to come.”
– C.K. Williams
American poet, critic and
translator, Charles Kenneth “C.K.,” Williams won nearly every major poetry
award including the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Flesh and
Blood, the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Repair, the 2003 National Book Award for The Singing, and
the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.
Williams, born in November 1936 (he died in 2015),
also was
an acclaimed 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translator, notably of Sophocles’ Women of
Trachis and Euripides’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet
Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge. But, he said, it was the writing of his own
poetry that gave him the most pleasure.
“When you begin to write poems
because you love language, because you love poetry,” he said, “ the writing of poems becomes incredibly
pleasurable and addictive.” For Saturday's Poem, here is Williams'
SILENCE
The heron methodically pacing like an old-time librarian
down the stream through the patch of woods at the end of the field, those great
wings tucked in as neatly as clean sheets, is so intent on keeping her silence,
extracting one leg, bending it like a paper clip, placing it back, then bending
the other, the first again, that her concentration radiates out into the
listening world, and everything obediently hushes, the ragged grasses that rise
from the water, the light-sliced vault of sparkling aspens.
Then abruptly a flurry, a flapping, her lifting from the
gravitied earth, her swoop out over the field, her banking and settling on a
lightning-stricken oak, such a gangly, unwieldy contraption up there in the
barkless branches, like a still Adam's-appled adolescent; then the cry, cranky,
coarse, and wouldn't the waiting world laugh aloud if it could with glee?
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