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  • Black Zodiac

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Collected Novels of Charles Wright

    The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About

    by Charles Wright ...
    The complete trilogy following the double life of a young black man in mid-twentieth-century New York: "Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesIn this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as "malevolent, bitter, glittering"—a young black intellectual from the South struggles to make ... Read more

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  • Oblivion Banjo

    The Poetry of Charles Wright

    by Charles Wright ...
    The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Char... ... Read more

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  • Country Music

    Selected Early Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright ... Read more

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  • Buffalo Yoga

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,And evening with its blotting paperlifts off the light.Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve ... Read more

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  • Zone Journals

    by Charles Wright ...
    Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profound sense of subliminal order."Called one of our best middle-generation poets, Wright offers as his seventh collection a series of meditations ... Read more

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  • Scar Tissue

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Hard to imagine that no one counts,that only things endure.Unlike the seasons, our shirts don't shed,Whatever we see does not see us,however hard we look,The rain in its silver earrings against the oak trunks,The rain in its second skin.--from "Scar Tissue II"In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Luminous new poems from the author of " The Appalachian Book of the Dead"Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.Don't just do something, sit there.And so I have, so I have,the seasons curling around me like smoke,Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.-"Body and Soul II"This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the ... ... Read more

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  • Bye-and-Bye

    Selected Late Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    The acclaimed collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet whose work is "conceived in a manner that never ceased to astonish" (Helen Vendler, The New Republic).Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, former US Poet Laureate Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century" (David Young, Contemporary Poets).Bye ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Caribou

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poetsCharles Wright's truth—the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging—is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is an elegy to transient beauty, a song for the "stepchild hour, / belonging to neither the light nor dark, / The hour of disappearing things," and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How To Be Creative

    by Charles Wright ...
    You deserve success!You can live a rich full and productive life, by following the tracks and traits of creative people.There are observed traits that are common to almost all creative people, and those traits can easily be learned.With the traits of the tracks left by some very creative people, you can follow the tracks, and learn to unleash the very powerful genius of creativity that lies ... Read more

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  • The Way of the Heart

    The Spiritual Experience of André Louf

    by Charles Wright ...
    Translated by Brian Kerns OCSO ...
    Series Book 72 - Monastic Wisdom Series
    Award-winning French author shares the biography and spiritual journey of Cistercian abbot Dom André Louf.Based on a wide variety of interviews, printed sources, and Dom André Louf’s spiritual journal, The Way of the Heart narrates Louf’s spiritual journey from his childhood in Flanders through his becoming a monk in a Cistercian monastery, his ten years of retirement as a hermit in a Benedictine ... Read more

    $27.99 USD