Points of Departure: Poems

"One of our very finest
poets in full stride." -- HarvardReview, on Adjusting
to the Light
A 1995 recipient of the Academy
Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Miller
Williams is one of America's best known and loved poets. He also has won
the prestigious Poets' Prize; the Amy Lowell Award in Poetry, presented
by Harvard University; the Prix de Rome for Literature from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, and many others.
Williams's newest collection
is built of the idiom of ordinary speech. Mostly narrative and dramatic,
these indelible poems are populated by individuals who go about their
lives much as all of us do; in fear of pain and loneliness, in hope of
something like love. The breath of Williams's talent gives them life,
his honesty and precision make them unforgettable.