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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2004
On Sale: April 1, 2004
76 pages
ISBN: 0374117284
EAN: 9780374117283
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Fiction Poetry
The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,
And
evening with its blotting paper
lifts off the
light.
Shadowy yards. Moon through the white
pines
--"Landscape with Missing
Overtones" Never has Charles Wright's vision been more
closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese
painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his
newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's
words, "achieve a level of eloquence where the reader says
to himself, if this is not wisdom, I don't know what is"
(The New York Review of Books). The poems in
Buffalo Yoga are pristine examples of the Tennessee
poet's deft, painterly touch--"crows in a caterwaul" are
"scored like black notes in the bare oak"--and his oblique,
expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in
the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. /
That form unties. Or reties."
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