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Books by Charles Wright
  | | The World of the Ten Thousand Things(90th Edition) Poems 1980-1990 by Charles Wright Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1991 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52326-8, ISBN: 0-374-52326-6 "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 1980s: The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), and Zone Journals (1988)." |
 | | Scar Tissue(1st Edition) Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2007 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53083-9, ISBN: 0-374-53083-1 "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 the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject--language and "the ghost of god." And ..." |
 | | Bye-and-Bye Selected Late Poems by Charles Wright Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-11758-0, ISBN: 0-374-11758-6 "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 Poets). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work―including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality―showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature w ..." |
 | | Chickamauga Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1996 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52481-4, ISBN: 0-374-52481-5 "As he juggles his inquiries about language, landscape, memory, and God throughout the six groups of short poems that make up Chickamauga, Wright refuses to reach for the easy conclusion. In this, his poems embody Keats's notion of "negative capability": the ability to consider multiple concepts without "irritably reaching after fact." "We're placed between now and not-now," as he writes in "Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Y ..." |
 | | A Short History of the Shadow(Reprint) Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52879-9, ISBN: 0-374-52879-9 "Luminous new poems from one who "has long been a poet of gorgeous description" --William Logan, The New CriterionLandscape, 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 Nega ..." |
 | | Appalachia(1st Edition) Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1999 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52624-5, ISBN: 0-374-52624-9 "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 of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is th ..." |
 | | Halflife(1st Edition) Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-87 (Poets On Poetry) by Charles Wright Paperback, 185 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06384-0, ISBN: 0-472-06384-7 ""I myself am interested in a kind of structural investigation of the line, an attempt at some kind of harmonics involving new patterns and new designs using a long image-freighted line (the odd marriage of Emily and Walt) that can carry information (and 'sincerity' and a lyric intensity at the same time. Not only will it sing, but it will tell time too. Or as Fats Domino once observed, 'I don't want to bury the lyrics, man; I want 'em t ..." |
 | | Black Zodiac Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 85 Pages, Published 1998 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52536-1, ISBN: 0-374-52536-6 "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing--lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing ..." |
 | | Psalms - Marvelous Conversations with God by Charles Wright Published 2017 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-1-387-33932-7, ISBN: 1-387-33932-X |
 | | Caribou(Reprint) Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53515-5, ISBN: 0-374-53515-9 "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, of aging is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, "Caribou." This is an elegy to transient beauty, a song for the "stepchild hour, / belonging to neither the light nor dark, / The hour of disappearing things," and an expression of Wright's restless que ..." |
 | | Caribou(1st Edition) Poems by Charles Wright Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-11902-7, ISBN: 0-374-11902-3 "A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poetsCharles Wright's truth--the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging--is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is an elegy to transient beauty, a song for the "stepchild hour, / belonging to neither the light nor dark, / The hour of disappearing things," and an expression of Wright's restless ques ..." |
 | | Littlefoot(Reprint) A Poem by Charles Wright Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53121-8, ISBN: 0-374-53121-8 ""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 on "the other side of my own death." Following the course of one year, the poet's seventieth, we witness the seasons change over his familiar postage stamps of soil, realizing that we are reflected in them, that the true affinity is betwe ..." |
 | | The Wrong End of the Rainbow Poems (Quarternote Chapbook Series #4) by Charles Wright Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2005 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-12-3, ISBN: 1-932511-12-1 "“Wright has a hunk of the ineffable in his teeth and he won’t let go. In poem after poem, he plumbs our deepest relationships with nature, time, love, death, creation. Wright’s search breaks all the barriers of time, space, action, for its dramatic narrative simply refuses to acknowledge the usual unities, as though all time were this time, all places this place and all actions one.”—Philip Levine, from his citation for the 1996 Lenore ..." |
 | | Buffalo Yoga(Reprint) Poems by Charles Wright Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52963-5, ISBN: 0-374-52963-9 ""[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 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, ..." |
 | | Appalachia(1st Edition) by Charles Wright Hardcover, 67 Pages, Published 1998 by Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10571-6, ISBN: 0-374-10571-5 "A poet reflects on his experience with his own mortality and his stunning ability to find transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary landscapes" |
 | | Black Zodiac(1st Edition) by Charles Wright Hardcover, 85 Pages, Published 1997 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-374-11410-7, ISBN: 0-374-11410-2 "In a new anthology of poetry, the author of Chickamauga lyrically contemplates the themes of faith, religion, heritage, and morality." |
 | | Chickamauga(1st Edition) Poems by Charles Wright Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1995 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-12108-2, ISBN: 0-374-12108-7 "Six groups of poems explore themes connected by the common thread of Chickamauga, a Civil War battle site" |
 | | Country Music Selected Early Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Signed First Edition) by Charles Wright Paperback, 171 Pages, Published 1982 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6075-9, ISBN: 0-8195-6075-8 |
 | | Bloodlines Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Program) by Charles Wright Paperback, 77 Pages, Published 1975 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-1077-8, ISBN: 0-8195-1077-7 |
 | | A Short History of the Shadow(1st Edition) Poems by Charles Wright Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-26302-7, ISBN: 0-374-26302-7 "Luminous new poems from the author of "The Appalachian Book of the Dead" 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. -"Body and Soul II"This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the completion of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, the trilogy of t ..." |
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