| A Short History of the Shadow: Poems Contributor(s): Wright, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374528799 ISBN-13: 9780374528799 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: 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 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." --from "Body and Soul II" This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in "Negative Blue," of his "Appalachian Book of the Dead," a trilogy of trilogies hailed "among the great long poems of the century" (James Longenbach, "Boston Review"). 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.52" W x 8.4" (0.28 lbs) 96 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 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.--from Body and Soul II This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in Negative Blue, of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, a trilogy of trilogies hailed among the great long poems of the century (James Longenbach, Boston Review). 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wright, Charles: - 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. |