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Selected Later Poems
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2001
On Sale: April 9, 2001
224 pages
ISBN: 0374527733
EAN: 9780374527730
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Fiction Poetry
The culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer
Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award Time
will append us like suit coats left out
overnight On a deck chair, loose change dead
weight in the right pocket, Silk handkerchief
limp with dew, sleeves in a slow dance with
the wind. And love will kill
us— Love, and the winds from under the
earth that grind us to
grain-out. —from "Still Life with Spring and Time
to Burn" When Charles Wright published Appalachia
in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume
project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the Boston
Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies—call it
'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'—is sure to be counted
among the great long poems of the century." The first
two of those trilogies were collected in Country
Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand
Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy
(Chickamauga [1995], Black Zodiac [1997], and
Appalachia [1998]) a section of new poems that
suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous,
spirit-haunted poet.
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