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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2007
On Sale: August 2, 2007
88 pages ISBN: 0374530831 EAN: 9780374530839 Paperback
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Fiction Poetry
In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles
Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship
between description and actuality—”A thing is not an
image”—but also reaffirms the project of attempting to
describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it,
although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject
matter but his technique: that language was always his
subject—language and “the ghost of god.” And in the
dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate
these poems, “something un-ordinary persists.
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