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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

Scar Tissue
Charles Wright

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2007
On Sale: August 2, 2007
88 pages
ISBN: 0374530831
EAN: 9780374530839
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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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