Franz Wright, Author . Knopf $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-41518-0
Terse and consistent, Wright's 15th book (and second from Knopf) returns to the haunted territory of The Beforelife (2001) with a wider range of formal tools. Heartfelt but often cryptic poems, split into short, sometimes even single-line...
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Franz Wright, Author , Knopf $24 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4351-4
Wright's Walking to Martha's Vineyard
won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; this book offers more agonic short poems on struggles with addiction and pain, but from a perspective much closer to faith than despair. Extended pieces like "East...
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Franz Wright, Author . Knopf $26.95 (91p) ISBN 978-0-307-26568-5
Once more the Pulitzer Prize–winning Wright (God's Silence
) delves into his own exceptionally troubled past and comes up with fractured and frightening—but also well-constructed and self-aware—poems about his former...
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Franz Wright, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-375-41154-0
The six books that Wright published in the '90s were more or less split between Carnegie-Mellon University and Oberlin College presses, with the latter publishing Ill Lit: Selected Poems to little fanfare in 1998. Clearly, however, Knopf editor...
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Franz Wright. Knopf, $26.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-307-70158-9
“I’m really looking forward to inheriting the world I have heard so much about,” Wright declares in “Entries of the Cell,” the long middle poem of his 13th collection. “Cross of Hiroshima// ash traced on a forehead.// The black dove sent out and...
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