Charles Wright, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-26302-7
No attentive reader would ever mistake Wright's evocative, sprawling poems for poems by anyone else; many readers, however, find it hard to tell his mature works apart. Wright (who won the Pulitzer for 1997's Black Zodiac) follows up...
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Charles Wright, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (76p) ISBN 978-0-374-11728-3
Over more than 30 years, Wright's long-lined, even-paced, meditative verses have seemed at once resigned and sublime: frequent topics include Chinese painters and poets, Italian landscapes and America's upper South, especially the Blue Ridge
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Charles Wright, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $8.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-52112-7
``Wright's landscape-centered meditations in verse are laced with dark irony,'' stated PW , commenting that in ``inventive, solipsistic odes'' the author ``fathoms the ceaseless change at the heart of our lives, why we leave what we love best, the...
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Charles Wright, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-12108-2
In subject matter, many poems in the six varied-length sections here are akin to haiku: meditations that connect breaths of spirituality to pinpoints in time and space--details of a landscape, season, time of day. But Wright (who won the 1983...
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Charles Wright, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-22020-4
The widely esteemed Virginia-based poet collects a decade's worth of striking description and laid-back meditation in this sample of work from his last three books: the energetic Chickamauga, the introspective (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) Black...
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Charles Wright, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-11410-7
""Out of any two thoughts I have, one is devoted to death,"" proclaims Wright in this ominous collection of new work. Perhaps because these poems were written around his 60th birthday or perhaps because an imperative moves all good Southern writers...
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Charles Wright, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (73p) ISBN 978-0-374-25427-8
The phrasemaking lyricism of this 17th volume plays to Wright's familiar strengths: 42 long-lined poems mix calm, Taoist-inflected wisdom with lush descriptions of landscapes in Italy, North Carolina (where he grew up) and Virginia's Blue...
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Charles Wright, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (75p) ISBN 978-0-374-26115-3
Wright's gifts for single long lines, simple description and lyrical sound effects are second to none; he is the recipient of almost every American poetry award, including the Pulitzer. Even so gifted a poet, though, risks repeating himself...
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Charles Wright, Author Book World/Blue Star $12.95 (222p) ISBN 978-1-881542-38-4
One reader's mystical wisdom is another reader's folk tale. Although the 12 stories in this volume are supposed to disclose ""secrets which have been hidden from most mortal minds,"" there are no great revelations to be found here. ""The Secret of...
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Katie Crouch. FSG/Sarah Crichton, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-10036-0
A mystery based on the Amanda Knox saga unfolds in this strong fifth novel from the author of Girls in Trucks. Tabitha (“Taz”) Deacon, an Irish student studying abroad in Grifonia, Italy, finds herself caught up in the glamorous lives of a trio of...
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Charles Wright. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-11902-7
“Musician says, beauty is the enemy of expression./ I say expression is the enemy of beauty./ God says, who gives a damn anyway”—that’s how Wright tells a joke. Indeed, his latest collection (after 2013’s Bollingen Prize–winning Bye-and-Bye) is a...
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