Product Description: Because Charles Wright occupies a large space in contemporary American poetry, it is only natural that his readers over the years have wanted to engage him in conversation and discover more about his career and inspirations. In this collection of richly detailed interviews conducted between 1979 and 2006, Wright eloquently discusses a range of topics, including the beginning of his poetic career in Italy, his experiences at the University of Iowa, the American and European influences on his work, contemporary poets he admires, his place in Southern literature, the art of translating poetry, and such formal matters as his lineation and rhythmic phrasing, his use of syllabics, and the development of his characteristic style...read more

The Tennessee poet and author of Negative Blue and Appalachia introduces a new collection of poems that employs the spartan but deeply insightful style of Chinese painters and writers, serving up a nuanced, lyrical group of poems. Reprint.

The Tennessee poet and author of Negative Blue and Appalachia introduces a new collection of poems that employs the spartan but deeply insightful style of Chinese painters and writers, serving up a nuanced, lyrical group of poems. 20,000 first printing.

The author of The Appalachian Book of the Dead presents a new collection of poems that resonate with humor, allure, and impatience in a world tormented by death and the dead. Reprint.

The last book in a cycle of poems that garnered the author the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award takes readers in new directions, in a collection that follows Chickamauga, Black Zodiac, and Appalachia. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The last book in the third of the author's three poetic trilogies explores themes of human potential in Appalachia. By the author of the National Book Awardwinning Country Music. Reprint.

A refreshing anthology of poems by the award-winning author of Chickamauga is rich with spiritual longing and lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. Reprint. NYT.

Six groups of poems explore such themes as language's mysteries, landscape's numinosity, and the idea of God in works connected by the common thread of Chickamauga, site of a Civil War battle. Reprint.

Product Description: Quarter Notes harvests recent reviews, essays, memoirs, and interviews by acclaimed poet Charles Wright. Wright uses creative variations on the form of the linear essay including interviews with himself as interviewee, correspondence (with Charles Simic), and experimentation with what he calls Improvisations "non- linear associational storylines"...read more

The World of Ten Thousand Things gathers The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), Zone Journals (1988), and a new group of poems, "Xionia," into one volume, allowing us to see Wright's work of the past decade as, in essence, one long poem, a meditation on self, history, and the metaphysical that is among the most ambitious and resonant creations in contemporary American poetry.

Product Description: 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.