Falling Ill: Last Poems Add Funds It whets Quinn's appetite to

It whets Quinn's appetite to move on to the next big thing

I was afraid I didn't have anything important to say

Published: January 12

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Falling Ill: Last Poems Add Funds It whets Quinn's appetite toA capstone to an unforgettable career Over the past half century, the great shape shifting poet C. K. Williams took upon himself the poet's task: to record with candor and ardor "the burden of being alive." In Falling Ill, his final volume of poems, he brings this task to its conclusion, bearing witness to a restless mind's encounter with the brute fact of the body's decay, the spirit's erasure. Written with unsparing lyricism and relentless