One Big Self: An Investigation
CD Wright, C. D. Wright, . . Copper Canyon, $15 (80pp) ISBN 978-1-55659-258-4
Originally released in 2003 as an expensive, limited-edition art book featuring photographs by Deborah Luster, Wright's poetic book-length meditation and report on life in three Louisiana prisons is now widely available for the first time. To portray the lives of those she met when she and Luster visited these prisons, Wright's method is accretion, her form the list. Registering a bevy of voices, from the poem's own twangy consciousness ("The redhead here is a photographer and I'm her humble factotum") to prisoners' hopeless missives, Wright (
Reviewed on: 02/26/2007
Genre: Fiction
Open Ebook - 96 pages - 978-1-61932-106-9