Books by C. D. Wright and Complete Book Reviews
C. D. Wright, Author, CD Wright, Author Copper Canyon Press $14 (111p) ISBN 978-1-55659-092-4
Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences,
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C. D. Wright, Author . Copper Canyon $25 (235p) ISBN 978-1-55659-172-3
Raised in remote Arkansas, Wright fell in when quite young with the charismatic and legendary poet Frank Stanford, whose neosurrealist techniques—and sudden death—inform her earliest work, included in this seventh full-length book, her
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C. D. Wright, Author . Copper Canyon $22 (97p) ISBN 978-1-55659-273-7
In her first collection of new lyric poems since 2003, Wright braids some of her most personal and intimate poetry to date with an extended meditation on the consequences of America's contemporary stance toward other countries. Short,...
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C. D. Wright, Author Kelsey Street Press $14 (55p) ISBN 978-0-932716-32-3
With her opening words, Wright ( String Light ) introduces ``the body, alive, not dead but dormant.'' A few lines later, the body is asked to take off its panties. This sensual image of the would-be naked female pervades the volume, as the poet...
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C. D. Wright, Author, CD Wright, Author . Copper Canyon $15 (107p) ISBN 978-1-55659-216-4
A determined and idiosyncratic book of critical thoughts—and not a "poet's memoir" à la Nick Flynn or Katy Lederer—Wright's latest offers criticism, speculation, and personal recollection, most of it divided into...
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C.D. Wright, Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $20 (160p) ISBN 978-1-55659-324-6
In 1969, a Tennessean known as “Sweet Willie Wine” led a small group of African-American men on a “walk against fear” through smalltown Arkansas. This event grounds Wright’s most recent blending of poetry and investigative journalism. A tribute to...
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C.D. Wright. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $18 (150p) ISBN 978-1-55659-485-4
Wright’s 15th book and second collection of prose poetry/lyric essays (after 2005’s Cooling Time) further reveals her particular Southern wit, engagement with art, and commitment to social justice. Four major recurring themes unite the collection:...
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C.D. Wright. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $23 (140p) ISBN 978-1-55659-496-0
On the heels of her stunning lyric prose collection The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures..., the late Wright’s (1949–2016) first posthumous book—there’s more to come—is a collection that emphasizes Wright as a poet who diligently and mercifully...
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C.D. Wright. Copper Canyon, $32 (160p) ISBN 978-1-55659-548-6
MacArthur fellow Wright (1949–2016) honed her vernacular and her politically and socially astute poetry over 16 genre-blending collections, including One with Others (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award). She always kept one foot in her
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C. D. Wright, Author, CD Wright, Author . Copper Canyon $15 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55659-258-4
Originally released in 2003 as an expensive, limited-edition art book featuring photographs by Deborah Luster, Wright's poetic book-length meditation and report on life in three Louisiana prisons is now widely available for the first time. To...
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