| Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems Contributor(s): Wright, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374527733 ISBN-13: 9780374527730 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2001 Annotation: The culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award "Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight" "On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket, " "Silk handkerchief limp with dew, " " sleeves in a slow dance with the wind." "And love will kill us--" "Love, and the winds from under the earth" " that grind us to grain-out." --from "Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn" When Charles Wright published "Appalachia "in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the "Boston Review," "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century." The first two of those trilogies were collected in "Country Music" (1982) and "The World of the Ten Thousand Things" (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy ("Chickamauga "[1995], "Black Zodiac" [1997], and "Appalachia "[1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight When Charles Wright published Appalachia in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the Boston Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century." The first two of those trilogies were collected in Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (Chickamauga 1995], Black Zodiac 1997], and Appalachia 1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet. |
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. |