"[Williams writes] in a voice dripping with equal parts nostalgia and self-interrogation . . . He muses on the minutiae of his life, keeping each vignette to a brief and tightly rendered prose poem . . . [Williams is] a master of poetics in his twilight years." –Publishers Weekly
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All at Once, defies easy categorization . . . What Williams has written here definitely are poems, but they're also simultaneously mini-memoirs or even flash fiction. It ultimately doesn't matter how we define them . . . The strongest parts of the book are those that look mortality in the eye . . . The similes often pop from the page . . . Some poems . . . may very well stand among the most rewarding of Williams' tremendous career . . . He's such a keen observer of our world–of our rhythms and our rhetorics. Given all of the chameleonic things he has achieved, perhaps it should come as no surprise to see Williams reinvent himself yet again as our elder statesman of TMI-overload and still continue to demonstrate why he's considered a national treasure." –
Andrew Irvin, The Philadelphia Inquirer