Call number
811 WRI
Collection
Publication
Copper Canyon Press (2016), 140 pages
Description
"In a turbulent world, C.D. Wright evokes a rebellious and dissonant ethos with characteristic genre-bending and expanding long-form poems. Accessing journalistic writing alongside filmic narratives, Wright ranges across seven poetic sequences, including a collaborative suite responding to photographic documentation of murder sites in New Orleans. ShallCross shows plain as day that C.D. Wright is our most thrilling and innovative poet."--Amazon.com.
Library's review
Wright was/is a remarkably observant poet, almost writing in the Imagist School style, but with quirkier word play. "The man next to the monument must have broken/ away from her. Perhaps years/ before. That the bond had been carnal is obvious./ He said he was just out clearing his head./ They
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followed the walk of pollarded pear trees. His tone/ distant but not disinterested..." And there is a lovely pull out poem (three pages, folded, to be read vertically) called "From the Obscure Lives of Poets" that reads like a contemporary Whitman elegiac catalog of poetic types. (Brian) Show Less
Pages
140
ISBN
1556594968 / 9781556594960