| Scar Tissue Contributor(s): Wright, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374530831 ISBN-13: 9780374530839 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: 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 in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, "something un-ordinary persists." "Scar Tissue "is a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts in the entire astonishing spectrum of existence" ("Booklist"). |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 6.25" W x 8.24" (0.27 lbs) 88 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, "something un-ordinary persists." Scar Tissue is a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts in the entire astonishing spectrum of existence" (Booklist). |
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. |