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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2010
On Sale: March 16, 2010
96 pages
ISBN: 0374532141
EAN: 9780374532147
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Fiction Poetry
Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the
country’s most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal
rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It
is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright’s
acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the
nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous:
“a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous.” Like his previous
books, Sestets is seeded with the lyrics of old love
songs and spirituals, and “there is always room to connect
his highly polished poems to the world where most of us lead
mundane lives” (Miami Herald). Soaring and earthy,
lyrical and direct, Charles Wright is an American treasure,
and his search for a truth that transcends change and death
settles finally on the beauties of nature and language:
“Time is a graceless enemy, but purls as it comes and goes.”
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