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Also by Charles Wright:

Outtakes, December 2010
Paperback
Sestets, March 2010
Paperback
Scar Tissue, August 2007
Paperback
Buffalo Yoga, April 2004
Paperback
Negative Blue, April 2001
Paperback
Appalachia, November 1999
Paperback

APPALACHIA
By: Charles Wright

Macmillan
November 1999
On Sale: November 1, 1999
82 pages
ISBN: 0374526249
EAN: 9780374526245
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Fiction Poetry

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope—a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series.

If Country Music traced "Wright's journey from the soil to the stars" and The World of the Ten Thousand Things "lovingly detailed" our world and made "a visionary map of the world beyond" (James Longenbach, The Nation), this final book in Wright's great work reveals a master's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to discover transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary of landscapes.

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