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  • The True Account of Myself as a Bird

    Series series Penguin Poets
    From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling usOver the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Reign of Snakes

    Series series Penguin Poets
    Described by the late James Dickey as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley's previous book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995), "To read it is to unpeel a little further into the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Earthly Meditations

    New and Selected Poems

    Series series Penguin Poets
    One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Earthly Meditations features nineteen original poems alongside a collection of sixty-one poems chosen from his first six books. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Church of Omnivorous Light

    Selected Poems

    Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. His most recent poems have presented a portrait of a nation, one that is a singular part of a singular planet, with an exuberant and frequently exasperating culture. In such a country, the glimpse of a ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • Beautiful Country

    Series series Penguin Poets
    **A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet.At the heart of Robert Wrigley's new book are the fears that find us at the darkest times and the hopes we rise to each morning. These poems explore that point where the sacred and the profane come together, that place of beauty inside the grotesque and the grotesque inside what is beautiful. The laws of nature, the commandments of capitalism, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

    Series series Penguin Poets
    A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake—Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions—Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Box

    Series series Penguin Poets
    A powerful new collection from an acclaimed, award-winning poetWith nine previously published collections of poetry, Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses.Wrigley's tenth collection, Box, is a book of poems obsessed with human containment, with the way ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lives of the Animals

    Series series Penguin Poets
    Lives of the Animals takes us to that place where the boundaries between predator and prey, the observer and the observed, merge, reverse, become re-imagined. We find ourselves inside a story of death and life, witness to acts of survival so primal they seem less instinctive than passionate. And it is passion that most informs these poems: the bond between lovers, between parent and child, between ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The True Account of Myself as a Bird

    Narrated by Robert Wrigley ...
    Series series Penguin Poets

    Unabridged

    1 hour 36 min

    From an award-winning poet, a new collection that endeavors to pass along what the things of the earth are telling usOver the course of his career Robert Wrigley has won acclaim for the emotional toughness, sonic richness, and lucid style of his poems, and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. In his new collection, Wrigley means to use poetry to capture the primal conversation ... Read more

    $7.50 USD

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    Selected and New Poems, Expanded Edition

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  • Dearly

    New Poems

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