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Oblivion Banjo

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719829
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Oblivion Banjo written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bye-and-Bye

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466877480
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Bye-and-Bye written by Charles Wright and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, 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). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work—including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality—showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true affinity between writer and subject, human and nature; the tenuous relationship between description and actuality; and the search for a truth that transcends change and death. Bye-and-Bye is a wonderful introduction to the late work of one of America's finest and best-loved poets.

Chickamauga

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877499
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Chickamauga written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal noted: "Wright is one of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music. Following his self-prescribed regimen of purgatio, illuminato, and contemplatio, Wright spins one lovely lyric after another on such elemental subjects as sky, trees, birds, months, and seasons. But the real subject is the thinking process itself and the mysterious alchemy of language: 'The world is a language we never quite understand.'"

Caribou

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374119023
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Caribou written by Charles Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems that meditates on life and nature while exploring the author's restless pursuit of a divine reality.

Littlefoot

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877421
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Littlefoot written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of something, there comes another end, This one behind you, and far away. Only a lifetime can get you to it, and then just barely. Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country's most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator's search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on "the other side of my own death." Following the course of one year, the poet's seventieth, we witness the seasons change over his familiar postage stamps of soil, realizing that we are reflected in them, that the true affinity is between writer and subject, human and nature, one becoming the other, as the river is like our blood, "it powers on, / out of sight, out of mind." Seeded with lyrics of old love songs and spirituals, here we meet solitude, resignation, and a glad cry that while a return to the beloved earth is impossible, "all things come from splendor," and the urgent question that the poet can't help but ask: "Will you miss me when I'm gone?

Incarnadine

Author : Mary Szybist
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1555976352
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Incarnadine written by Mary Szybist and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Country Music

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819572268
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Country Music written by Charles Wright and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.

Black Zodiac

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877413
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Black Zodiac written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

The Collected Novels of Charles Wright

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062966421
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Novels of Charles Wright written by Charles Wright and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times In this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as “malevolent, bitter, glittering”—a young, black intellectual from the South struggles to make it in New York City. This special compilation includes a foreword by acclaimed poet and novelist Ishmael Reed, who calls Wright, “Richard Pryor on paper.” As fresh and poignant as when originally published in the sixties and seventies, The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to get Alarmed About form Charles Wright’s remarkable New York City trilogy. By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three autobiographical novels create a memorable portrait of a young, working-class, black intellectual—a man caught between the bohemian elite of Greenwich Village and the dregs of male prostitution and drug abuse. Wright’s fiction is searingly original in bringing to life a special time, a special place, and the remarkable story of a man living in two worlds. This updated edition shines a spotlight once again on this important writer—a writer whose work is so crucial to our times.

Negative Blue

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877502
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Negative Blue written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sestets

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466877448
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sestets written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: "a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous." Like his previous books, Sestets is seeded with the lyrics of old love songs and spirituals, and "there is always room to connect his highly polished poems to the world where most of us lead mundane lives" (Miami Herald). Soaring and earthy, lyrical and direct, Charles Wright is an American treasure, and his search for a truth that transcends change and death settles finally on the beauties of nature and language: "Time is a graceless enemy, but purls as it comes and goes."

Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed about

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed about written by Charles Wright and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scar Tissue

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146687743X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Scar Tissue written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard to imagine that no one counts, that only things endure. Unlike the seasons, our shirts don't shed, Whatever we see does not see us, however hard we look, The rain in its silver earrings against the oak trunks, The rain in its second skin. --from "Scar Tissue II" In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--"thing is not an image"--but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject--language and "the ghost of god." And in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, "something un-ordinary persists." Scar Tissue is a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts the entire astonishing spectrum of existence" (Booklist).

Appalachia

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374105715
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Appalachia written by Charles Wright and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright began a poetic project of astonishing scope -- a series of three trilogies. The first two were collected in Country Music and The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Now Wright has completed the last book of the series -- Appalachia. If Country Music traced "Wright's journey from the soil to the stars" and The World of the Ten Thousand Things "lovingly detailed" our world and made "a visionary map of the world beyond" (The Nation), the final piece in this magnum opus shows us a master poet's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to find transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary landscapes.

A Study Guide for Charles Wright's "Black Zodiac"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410341518
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Charles Wright's "Black Zodiac" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Charles Wright's "Black Zodiac," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Understanding Charles Wright

Author : Joe Moffett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037788
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Charles Wright written by Joe Moffett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this first book-length study of Charles Wright's extensive body of work, Joe Moffett offers an introduction to the books and themes that have defined the poet's illustrious career." "Wright's major work centers around a lengthy self-described "trilogy of trilogies" project in which each volume is a collection of poems stemming from a different trio of books. In his study of each segment of the trilogy, Moffett finds Wright returning to the distinctive landscape and culture of his native Appalachia in poetic quests for spiritual meaning. Moffett concludes with a survey of Wright's three subsequent volumes of poetry as a continuation of the poetic style and dialogue between southern landscapes and divine influences that defined the poet's earlier trilogies."--BOOK JACKET.

Charles Wright in Conversation

Author : Robert D. Denham
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786439653
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Charles Wright in Conversation written by Robert D. Denham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.