Charles Wright
Charles Wright is the United States Poet Laureate. His poetry collections include Country Music, Black Zodiac, Chickamauga, Bye-and-Bye: Selected Later Poems, Sestets, and Caribou. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2013 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. Born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee in 1935, he currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Caribou
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets
Charles Wright's truth—the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine,...
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Bye-and-Bye
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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 twentieth century" (David Young, Contemporary...
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Zone Journals
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they...
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Sestets
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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. It is yet another virtuosic...
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Littlefoot
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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Scar Tissue
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality—"A thing is not an image"—but also reaffirms...
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Buffalo Yoga
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"[Wright's] penetrating and ravishingly gorgeous lyrical poems are at once classically philosophical and freshly revealing" (Booklist)
Never has Charles Wright's vision been more...
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A Short History of the Shadow
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Luminous new poems from one who "has long been a poet of gorgeous description" —William Logan, The New Criterion
Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of ...
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Negative Blue
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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,...
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Appalachia
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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 Award for Poetry) began a poetic project...
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Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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,...
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Chickamauga
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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The World of the Ten Thousand Things
Charles Wright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This important book--shot through with reflections on, explorations of, and hymns to both our natural and spiritual realms--features the three poetry collections Charles Wright published during the...
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