The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Char...

The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,And evening with its blotting paperlifts off the light.Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence w...

Luminous new poems from the author of " The Appalachian Book of the Dead"Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.Don't just do something, sit there.And so I have, so I have,the seasons curling around me like smoke,Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.-"Body and Soul II"This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the ...

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim a...

Award-winning French author shares the biography and spiritual journey of Cistercian abbot Dom André Louf.Based on a wide variety of interviews, printed sources, and Dom André Louf’s spiritual journal, The Way of the Heart narrates Louf’s spiritual journey from his childhood in Flanders through his becoming a monk in a Cistercian monastery, his ten years of retirement as a hermit in a Benedictine monastery in the south of France, and his d...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal vers...

After the end of something, there comes another end,This one behind you, and far away.Only a lifetime can get you to it,and then just barely.Littlefoot, the eighteenth book from one of this country's most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator's search of the skies for a road map and for last instructions on "the other side of my own death." Following the course of one year, the poet's seventieth, we witness the seasons...

Hard to imagine that no one counts,that only things endure.Unlike the seasons, our shirts don't shed,Whatever we see does not see us,however hard we look,The rain in its silver earrings against the oak trunks,The rain in its second skin.--from "Scar Tissue II"In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--"thing is not an image"--but also r...

The acclaimed collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet whose work is "conceived in a manner that never ceased to astonish" (Helen Vendler, The New Republic).Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, former US Poet Laureate Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century" (David Young, Contemporary Poets).Bye-and-Bye, which brings together select...

Negative Blue is 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 overnightOn 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 earththat grin...

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