| Buffalo Yoga: Poems Contributor(s): Wright, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374529639 ISBN-13: 9780374529635 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: "[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, I don't know what is" ("The New York Review of Books"). The poems in "Buffalo Yoga" are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch-"crows in a caterwaul" are "scored like black notes in the bare oak"-and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2003054702 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.56" W x 8.26" (0.29 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: [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, I don't know what is (The New York Review of Books). The poems in Buffalo Yoga are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch-crows in a caterwaul are scored like black notes in the bare oak-and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties. |
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. |