The Vigil: PoemsNominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award The Vigil, which first appeared in 1997, finds contemporary American master poet C. K. Williams taking a more reflective and empathetic turn in his work. As Jonathan Aaron wrote in The Boston Globe: A matchless explorer of the burdens of consciousness, Williams has always written brilliantly about human pain, that which we inflict upon others and upon ourselves, and that which we experience in