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| Sewanee Writers' Series Publishes Errors in the Script
A Whiting Writer's Award-winner and professor at Johns Hopkins University, Williamson has crafted in Errors in the Script a clever and poignant study of the dualities of language, human nature, and the fragility of memory and existence. The collection includes complex nonce stanzas, blank verse, free verse, and other forms, including, as the book's masterful centerpiece, twenty-six poems Williamson calls "Double Exposures," which represent a roll of double-exposed film. Each double exposure is in fact three poems, the left- and right-hand heroic couplets interlocking to form a third and distinct poem of rhyming quatrains. The seventh book in the Series, Errors in the Script has been lauded for its wit, skill, wisdom, and humanity. Pulitzer-Prize-winner Donald Justice says that in Errors in the Script "verse turns to poetry before one's eyes," while former poet laureate of the United States Mark Strand celebrates the book for "a wittiness that does not fail to dazzle and delight." Publishers Weekly calls the book "entertaining and humane"; Melanie Rehak of the New York Times says Williamson's formal skill is "an achievement in its own right"; and Ben Downing of the Wall Street Journal calls Errors in the Script an "impressively assured volume," comparing Williamson's talents with those of the late James Merrill: "Like Merrill," Downing writes, "[Williamson] is brainy, breezy, tongue-in-cheek and enamored of complex nonce stanzas." Established in 1998, and made possible through the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund, the Sewanee Writers' Series is a joint venture between the University of the South and The Overlook Press. |
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The Sewanee Writers' Series announces the publication of Greg Williamson's second collection of poems, Errors in the Script.