C. K. Williams

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist"National Book Awards – 1999" . National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08. and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award, 2003 and in 2005 Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Williams died of multiple myeloma. 

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List of poets from North America

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Category:1936 births
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Category:American literary critics
Category:American poets
Category:Writers from Newark, New Jersey
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