Charles Wright in Conversation

Charles Wright in Conversation
Author: Robert D. Denham
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786482583

Because Charles Wright occupies a large space in contemporary American poetry, it is only natural that his readers over the years have wanted to engage him in conversation and discover more about his career and inspirations. In this collection of richly detailed interviews conducted between 1979 and 2006, Wright eloquently discusses a range of topics, including the beginning of his poetic career in Italy, his experiences at the University of Iowa, the American and European influences on his work, contemporary poets he admires, his place in Southern literature, the art of translating poetry, and such formal matters as his lineation and rhythmic phrasing, his use of syllabics, and the development of his characteristic style. An extensive bibliography of writings by and about Wright supplements the interviews.

Oblivion Banjo

Oblivion Banjo
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374719829

The selected works of one of our finest American poets The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there. Don’t touch it, in fact, anywhere— Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing. —from “Scar Tissue” Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright’s poetry: “language, landscape, and the idea of God.” No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. The recipient of almost every honor in poetry—the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few—and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career—for devout fans and newcomers alike.

Incarnadine

Incarnadine
Author: Mary Szybist
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1555976352

The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award The troubadours knew how to burn themselves through, how to make themselves shrines to their own longing. The spectacular was never behind them.-from "The Troubadours etc." In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist.

Negative Blue

Negative Blue
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466877502

Negative Blue is the culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket, Silk handkerchief limp with dew, sleeves in a slow dance with the wind. And love will kill us-- Love, and the winds from under the earth that grind us to grain-out. --from "Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn" When Charles Wright published Appalachia in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the Boston Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century." The first two of those trilogies were collected in Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (Chickamauga [1995], Black Zodiac [1997], and Appalachia [1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.

Black Zodiac

Black Zodiac
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466877413

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else."

Caribou

Caribou
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374119023

A collection of poems that meditates on life and nature while exploring the author's restless pursuit of a divine reality.

What the Psychic Said

What the Psychic Said
Author: Grace Cavalieri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-02-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781513657066

With over 50 works, this collection of poetry by Maryland's tenth Poet Laureate, Grace Cavalieri, is grouped into three provocative sections: The Octopus Poems, Stalked, and Poems and Meditation.

Neither Yesterdays Nor Tomorrows

Neither Yesterdays Nor Tomorrows
Author: George J. Elbaum
Publisher: G. Elbaum
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2010
Genre: Hidden children (Holocaust)
ISBN: 9781453720103

Child's memories of the Holocaust in Warsaw, then Paris and America - 1941 to 1955

The Storm and Other Poems

The Storm and Other Poems
Author: Eugenio Montale
Publisher: Oberlin College Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 1978
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780932440013

Winner of the PEN Translation Prize, these translations by noted American poet Charles Wright bring one of the major collections of poetry in this century to English-speaking authors. Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale considered La Bufera e Altro (The Storm and Other Poems) his best book.