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A Short History Of The Shadow: Poems

โœ Scribed by Charles Wright


Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
34 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1466877456

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โœฆ Synopsis


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 completion of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, the trilogy of trilogies hailed as one "among the great long poems of the century" (James Longenbach, Boston Review). Wright speaks in these poems with characteristic charm, restlessness, and wit, writing again and again, "I sit where I always sit," only to reveal himself in a new setting every time. In A Short History of the Shadow Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art...


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