Luminous new poems from one who "has long been a poet of gorgeous description" --William Logan, The New Criterion
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.--from "Body and Soul II"
This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in Negative Blue, of his "Appalachian Book of the Dead," a trilogy of trilogies hailed "among the great long poems of the century" (James Longenbach, Boston Review). In A Short History of the Shadow, Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 04/02/2003
ISBN: 9780374528799
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.52w x 0.32d