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A Short History of the Shadow

Poems

Author: Charles Wright

A Short History of the Shadow

A Short History of the Shadow

$11.99

About This Book

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...

Page Count
96
On Sale
07/22/2014

Book Details

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 something, sit there.
And so I have, so I have,
the seasons curling around me like smoke,
Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.
-"Body and Soul II"

This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the completion of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, the trilogy of trilogies hailed as one "among the great long poems of the century" (James Longenbach, Boston Review). Wright speaks in these poems with characteristic charm, restlessness, and wit, writing again and again, "I sit where I always sit," only to reveal himself in a new setting every time. In A Short History of the Shadow Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466877450

In The News

“There are precious few poets in whose work I find as much sheer wisdom as in Wright's ... The whole world seems to orbit in a kind of meditative, slow circle around Wright's grave influence.” —David Baker, Poetry

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A Short History of the Shadow

A Short History of the Shadow

$11.99