James Wright A Life in Poetry by JonathanBlunk Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-17859-8, ISBN: 0-374-17859-3
"The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America’s most complex, influential, and enduring poetsIn the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927–1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a fierce, single-minded devotion to his work, Wright escaped the steel town of his Depression-era childhood in the Ohio valley to become a revered professo ..."
"The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words."There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely--if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter to a friend. "The Great Conve ..."
"“There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter—the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely—if one is lucky in one’s thoughts,” wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter. A Wild Perfection is a riveting collection that captures the exhilarating and moving correspondence ..."
James Wright(Reprint) A Life in Poetry by Blunk, Jonathan 526 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53793-7, ISBN: 0-374-53793-3
James Wright A Life in Poetry by JonathanBlunk 512 Pages, Published 2017 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71737-7, ISBN: 0-374-71737-0
"Upon arriving, the Wrights took the first apartment they saw, on the second floor
of a house ten blocks north of campus, a mile from Wright's office and classrooms
in Folwell Hall. The neighborhood on Fifth Avenue had a mix of residential and
factory buildings that spread north along the eastern shore of the Mississippi
River. In his first letter to Wayne Burns from Minneapolis, Wright confessed his
anxieties about money, the begin ..."
"From Eternidades 4. Rosebushes, from Diario de Poeta y Mar 5. Dreaming, from
Diario de Poeta y Mar 6. From Diario de Poeta y Mar 7. On the City Ramparts of
Ca"diz, from Diario de Poeta y Mar 8. From Diario de Poeta y Mar 9. ... Rats (Trakl
) : 99 A Winter Night (Trakl) : 99 Sleep (Trakl) : loo I Am Freed (from the Spanish
of Ce"sar Vallejo) : 100 White Rose (Vallejo) : 101 A Divine Falling of Leaves (
Vallejo) : 102 Our Daily Bread ( ..."