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Negative Blue : Selected Later Poems
Negative Blue Selected Later Poems
Author: Charles Wright
The culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award — Time will append us like suit coats left out overnightOn 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 lov...  more »

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 James Longenbach wrote in the Boston Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century."

The first two of those trilogies were collected in Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (Chickamauga [1995], Black Zodiac [1997], and Appalachia [1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.
ISBN-13: 9780374527730
ISBN-10: 0374527733
Publication Date: 4/9/2001
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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