| The Wrong End of the Rainbow: Poems Contributor(s): Wright, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1932511121 ISBN-13: 9781932511123 Publisher: Sarabande Books OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2005 Annotation: "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 Marshall Poetry Prize. Charles Wright was named chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1999 and has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Prize and a "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize. Since 1983, he has been at the University of Virginia. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2004010654 |
| Series: Quarternote Chapbook |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 6.04" W x 9" (0.17 lbs) 39 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 Marshall Poetry Prize. Charles Wright was named chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1999 and has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Prize and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Since 1983, he has been at the University of Virginia. |