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Buffalo Yoga

Poems

Author: Charles Wright

Buffalo Yoga

Buffalo Yoga

$11.99

About This Book

The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,
And evening with its blotting paper
lifts off the light.
Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines

Page Count
96
On Sale
07/29/2014

Book Details

The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,
And evening with its blotting paper
lifts off the light.
Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines
--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"

Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence where the reader says to himself, if this is not wisdom, I don't know what is" (The New York Review of Books). The poems in Buffalo Yoga are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch--"crows in a caterwaul" are "scored like black notes in the bare oak"--and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties."

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9781466877474

In The News

“[Wright] finds the sublime in the unlikeliest places, and at his best makes you think such places are exactly where to look.” —William Logan, The New Criterion

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Buffalo Yoga

Buffalo Yoga

$11.99