Country music : selected early poems / Charles Wright ; with a foreword by David St. John.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Charles, 1935-

Contributor:

St. John, David.

Series:

Wesleyan Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword: "Charles Wright's Country Music" by David St. John; Preface; The Grave of the Right Hand; Aubade; The Poet Grows Older; The Voyage; Nocturne; Storm; Hard Freight; Homage to Ezra Pound; Homage to Arthur Rimbaud; Homage to Baron Corvo; Homage to X; The New Poem; Portrait of the Poet in Abraham von Werdt's Dream; Chinoiserie; One Two Three; White; Firstborn; Slides of Verona; Grace; Negatives; The Fever Toy; Notes for Oscar Wilde at San Miniato; Oscar Wilde at San Miniato; Nocturne; Yellow; Dog Creek Mainline

Blackwater MountainSky Valley Rider; Sex; Northhanger Ridge; Primogeniture; Nightdream; Congenital; Clinchfield Station; Bloodlines; Virgo Descending; Easter, 1974; Cancer Rising; Tattoos; Notes to Tattoos; Hardin County; Delta Traveller; Skins; Notes to Skins; Link Chain; Bays Mountain Covenant; Rural Route; China Trace; Childhood; Snow; Self-Portrait in 2035; Morandi; Dog; Snapshot; Indian Summer; Wishes; Quotidiana; At Zero; Sentences; Death; Next; January; 1975; Nerval's Mirror; Edvard Munch; Bygones; Equation; California Twilight; Anniversary; 12 Lines at Midnight; Dino Campana

Invisible LandscapeRemembering San Zeno; Born Again; Captain Dog; Depression Before the Solstice; Stone Canyon Nocturne; Reply to Chi K'ang; Reunion; "Where Moth and Rust Doth Corrupt"; April; Signature; Noon; Going Home; Cloud River; Reply to Lapo Gianni; Thinking of Georg Trakl; Spider Crystal Ascension; Moving On; Clear Night; Autumn; Sitting at Night on the Front Porch; Saturday 6 a.m.; Him; About the Author

Notes:

"Gathers work from his first four collections of poetry ... The grave of the right hand, Hard freight, Bloodlines, and China trace"--P. xiii.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-11030-X

9786613110305

0-8195-7226-8

0-585-37135-0

OCLC:

532293905