Steal Away: Selected and New Poems Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wright, C. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556591942 ISBN-13: 9781556591945 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2003 Annotation: Now in paperback, "Steal Away "presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright-with her Southern accent and cinematic eye-couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning." from "Our Dust" You didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity, of shadow work and towns with quarter-inch "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."-"The New Yorker" "Wright shrinks back from nothing."-"Voice Literary Supplement" "C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire."-"American Letters" C.D. Wright has published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2001007423 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.9" W x 9.4" (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new retablos and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright--with her Southern accent and cinematic eye--couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning. from Our Dust You didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity, Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.--The New Yorker Wright shrinks back from nothing.--Voice Literary Supplement C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire.--American Letters C.D. Wright has published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers. |