Charles Wright

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Charles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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Charles Wright reads his poem "Jesuit Graves"

"Listen to this poetry reading to hear poet Charles Wright read his poem ""Jesuit Graves."" Charles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Listen to this poetry reading and then learn more about poet Charles Wright at http://us.macmillan.com/author/charleswright"

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Bye-and-Bye
Bye-and-Bye

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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...


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Sestets
Sestets

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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....


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Littlefoot
Littlefoot

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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...


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Scar Tissue
Scar Tissue

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality—”A thing is not...


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Buffalo Yoga
Buffalo Yoga

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"[Wright's] penetrating and ravishingly gorgeous lyrical poems are at once classically philosophical and freshly revealing" (Booklist) Never has Charles...


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A Short History of the Shadow
A Short History of the Shadow

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Luminous new poems from the author of "The Appalachian Book of the Dead" Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation. Don't just do...


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Negative Blue
Negative Blue

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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...


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Appalachia
Appalachia

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book...


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Black Zodiac
Black Zodiac

Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations...


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