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Charles Wright

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.

Works

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Sestets
Poems

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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
A Poem

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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
Poems

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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
Poems

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"[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
Poems

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Luminous new poems from one who “has long been a poet of gorgeous description” —William Logan, The New Criterion Landscape, as Wang Wei...
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Negative Blue
Selected Later Poems

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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

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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
Poems

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

Audio

'Jesuit Graves'

Hear Charles Wright read his poem 'Jesuit Graves.'

Duration: 3:03
Charles Wright Reads 'The Journey'

Listen to Charles Wright read James Wright's poem 'The Journey.'

Duration: 02:49
'Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night'

Hear Charles Wright read his poem 'Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night.'

Duration: 1:38
Charles Wright
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Bestseller

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Sestets
Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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