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His new volume of poetry called Elegies for the Water has just been published and is already drawing notice from critics.

"I am delighted with this book, and do hope the many readers of my books over the years like it," Williams said. "These poems largely deal with the world around our seven acres in the country on a dirt road in north central Georgia."

The volume has already been hailed by the poet laureates of Georgia and North Carolina. Williams's tour to support it was kicked off with an autographing and reading at the Barnes & Noble in Athens, Ga., on March 12.

Williams's second book of the year is a new novel - his first since A Distant Flame, the novel that won the Michael Shaara Prize in 2004. The new novel, called The Campfire Boys, is about entertainers in the American Civil War - those battlefield singers and actors who kept the troops entertained in a tradition that extended through World War II and until today.

"This book is a large-scale comic novel with moments of deep pathos and follows most of the Eastern Theater of the Civil War and its main battles," said Williams. "Much of it is, I think, very funny, but it was a profoundly sad time and that is never far away."

Like A Distant Flame, Williams's new novel deals with Southerners who were against the South's position in the Civil War - something that has rarely been covered in fiction or film. This new novel will be out in September, and will be published by Mercer University Press.

Williams will be adding tour dates all during the year, so check back and see if he will be coming to a venue near you.

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