Oblivion banjo : the poetry of Charles Wright / Charles Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Charles, 1935- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

754 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2019]

Summary:

"Over the course of his work--more than twenty books in total--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). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: "language, landscape, and the idea of God." No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. The recipient of almost every honor in poetry--the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few--and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career--for devout fans and newcomers alike."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

from Hard Freight (1973)

from Bloodlines (1975)

from China Trace (1977)

from The Southern Cross (1981)

from The Other Side of the River (1984)

from Zone Journals (1988)

from Xionia (1990)

from Chickamauga (1995)

from Black Zodia (1997)

from Appalachia (1998)

from North American Bear (1999)

from A Short History of the Shadow (2002)

from Buffalo Yoga (2004)

from Scar Tissue (2006)

Littlefoot (2007)

from Sestets (2009)

from Caribous (2014)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-736) and index of titles and first lines.

ISBN:

9780374251017

0374251010

OCLC:

1086409476