Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

Black 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 verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 07/04/1997
ISBN: 9780374525361
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.46w x 0.32d
Award: Ambassador Book Awards - Winner
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 05/03/1998 pg. 32