Charles Wright
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Ein Klassiker frisch aufgelegt: Der amerikanische Soziologe und intellektuelle Querdenker C. Wright Mills geht in seiner epochalen Studie Die Machtelite der Frage nach, wer in der amerikanischen Demokratie über die eigentliche Entscheidungsmacht verfügt. Er kommt zu einem provokanten Ergebnis: In den USA hat sich ein Netzwerk aus wirtschaftlichen, politischen sowie militärischen Eliten gebildet, das über eine historisch beispiellose Macht verfügt...
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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...
10) Zone Journals
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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.
11) Sestets: Poems
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Sestets is the book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also, an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: "a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous."
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The selected works of one of our finest American poets
The thread that dangles us
between 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-Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry...
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Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series. This final book in Wright's great work reveals a master's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to discover transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary of landscapes.
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"Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure."-Dwight Garner, New York Times
In 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 it in New York City. This special compilation includes a foreword by acclaimed poet and novelist Ishmael Reed, who calls Wright, "Richard Pryor on paper."
As...
15) Caribou: Poems
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A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets
Charles 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 an expression of Wright's restless questing for a...
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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's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem...
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Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, 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-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work-including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality-showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true...
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The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,
And evening with its blotting paper
lifts 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.
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Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight
On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,
Silk handkerchief limp with dew,
sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.
And love will kill us-
Love, and the winds from under the earth
that grind us to grain-out.
-from "Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn"
When Charles Wright published Appalachia in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which...