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Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright
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ISBN10: 0374539081
ISBN13: 9780374539085
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 784
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374539085
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 784
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
The selected works of one of our finest American poets
The thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,
Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.
Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.
Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere--
Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.
--from Scar Tissue Over the course of his work--more than twenty books in total--Charles Wright has built one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: language, landscape, and the idea of God. No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. The recipient of almost every honor in poetry--the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few--and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career--for devout fans and newcomers alike.
--from Scar Tissue Over the course of his work--more than twenty books in total--Charles Wright has built one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: language, landscape, and the idea of God. No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. The recipient of almost every honor in poetry--the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few--and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career--for devout fans and newcomers alike.
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