Millennium Maladies (Paperback) | Released: 22 Sep 2012

Millennium Maladies Is a new book of prose poems by the author of SOME CAME FIRST, SOME CAME AFTER and SOME CAME NAKED, William's three novels comprising his Florida Keys trilogy. Williamson's prose is always clean, stark and direct, at times, graphic, as he dissects life and the world around him, as well as his ruminations on writing and that holds true in Millennium Maladies where he captures the trying times and difficult situations we all find ourselves submerged in, at some point during our lives. Williamson calls those moments, those feelings, big woman emotion. Big woman emotion is what we feel when relationships fall apart, our lives fall apart and the decisions that we make in life, dictate unpleasant outcomes that we have to face, all the while knowing, life goes on in its constant struggle to make some sense of it all. Williamson's work casts traditional poetic prose to the wayside. His poems are naked and shaved with a contemporary edge and pulse, reminiscent of the Beat poets during the fifties that he admired. But it was the work of Charles Bukowski, the Los Angeles poet, during that same era, who gave the finger to the Beat Generation because the scene bored him, which struck a kismet chord, inspiring William to search for the line, the way, the word and move poetry into minutes of prose, exposing big woman emotion. Big woman emotion is what life hands you, on any given day or night of the week. Big woman emotion is what life hands you any given hour or minute of your life.
About the Author: William Williamson is the author of SOME CAME FIRST, the recently published first novel of his Florida Keys trilogy. The second, sequel novel, SOME CAME AFTER has a publication date for early next year. His short stories have been previously published in three Key West anthologies, Once Upon an Island, Beyond Paradise and Mango Summers featuring new Key West authors. William's books are available at bookstores in the Keys and online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. He is also the author of a collection of short stories titled, Jack, Beans and Muffins and fifteen books of poetry. Bar Snatch Tonight We're Serving Insanity for Supper A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals Millennium Maladies Sixty Nine Poems on a Sundog Day A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight A Madness is Within Reach Inside of All of Us A Murmur Escaped from her Lips as his Hands Traced her Hips Accept No Presents and Give No Pardons a Poet's on his Own At Odds with the Flavor of the Union First and Last Impressions from the Lost and Found Forgotten Notes from Nights of Ill-gotten Grandeur Last Night of the Orphan Poems Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked You'll be my Monkey and I'll be the Proudest Palm Tree, You ever Seen To read more of William's work, visit William Williamson.com and Poetscrib.com Check William out @ Facebook.com William Williamson was born and raised in the Florida Keys where his family has lived for over a hundred and fifty years. Though proud of his Conch heritage, William, currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida. Between writing fiction and poetry, working on completing revisions to SOME CAME NAKED, the third novel of his Florida Keys trilogy, following SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, William, enjoys time with his son, Brandon, taking care of his botanical garden and koi ponds while raising two green iguanas with his adorable wife, Cocos.