{"product_id":"axe-in-blossom-last-poems-fragments-9780307962058","title":"Axe in Blossom: Last Poems \u0026 Fragments","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize winner's final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His hands strip poetry to its nub.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading [Wright] is like walking through a plate-glass window on purpose. . . . The shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking.\"\u003ci\u003e --Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"My death is in the second drawer,\" writes Franz Wright. \"While you're standing there, would you mind getting me one?\" It is a thrill to be back in these cadences, in his world of exquisite solitude, as he ponders becoming a ghost and returning to a childhood room where, he says, \"I won't have written any of it. \/ I will have back the rights \/ of anonymity,\" and there is nothing left that anyone can take from him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWright's significant themes shine forth: radical acceptance of his own pain, mental illness, and loss; his belief in the poem's ability to rhyme with the mysteries of our worldly suffering; his nearly surreal vision of Christian grace. But most powerful for readers will be the tender force of his imagery--the \"green vesperal rain at the screen,\" the \"long Jeffersonian \/ $2-bill- \/ tinted twilight\"--and, as he invites us to join him in his nicatorium, the smoking-porch of recovering addicts, the joy of finding this black-humorous voice still alive on the page to meet us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307962058\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.88w x 0.44d","brand":"Franz Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52507642331317,"sku":"9780307962058","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5637fbb5-10bd-4fa0-8fb9-8178480a796b.jpg?v=1778566320","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/axe-in-blossom-last-poems-fragments-9780307962058","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}