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A Short History of the Shadow: Poems
A Short History of the Shadow Poems
Author: Charles Wright, Charles Wright
Luminous new poems from one who “has long been a poet of gorgeous description” —William Logan, The New Criterion — 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 sm...  more »

Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.

—from “Body and Soul II”

This is Charles Wright’s first collection of verse since the gathering, in Negative Blue, of his “Appalachian Book of the Dead,” a trilogy of trilogies hailed “among the great long poems of the century” (James Longenbach, Boston Review). In A Short History of the Shadow, Wright’s return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.
ISBN-13: 9780374528799
ISBN-10: 0374528799
Publication Date: 4/2/2003
Pages: 96
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
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