a book
Some Jazz a While
Miller Williams · 1998 · 279 pages
Treats the mundane interchanges, the lingering uncertainties, the missed opportunities, and the familiar sense of loss that mark daily life with the surgeon's deft touch. An American original, the poet involves the reader's emotions and imagination with an illusion of plain talk, rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language.
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Lucinda Williams
“This is a collection of some of my dad’s best poems. Like O’Connor’s characters, he also struggled with faith: His father was a Methodist minister and he was an agnostic. He wrote about day-to-day things, observations on a wreck on the highway or a cat asleep on a windowsill. I think I learned that from him. He once told me, ‘Don’t ever censor yourself.'”↗