Points of Departure

"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.