The world of the ten thousand things : poems 1980 - 1990

"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.