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God's Silence
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha?s Vineyard . Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God?s Silence with ?East Boston, 1996,? a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility.... more...
Earlier Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 18.00The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where ?fans old and new will find a feast amid famine? ( Publishers Weekly ), and discover how large this poet?s gift was from the start. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The Beforelife
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery. Wright negotiates the precarious transition from... more...
Walking to Martha's Vineyard
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the ?Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,? he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding ?what death . . . There is only / mine / or yours,? / but the world / will be filled... more...
Kindertotenwald
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 17.00A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize?winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright?s most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose colloquial... more...
Wheeling Motel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future. From his earliest years, he writes in ?Will,? he had ?the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by a rage to prove them wrong / . . . and that I too was worthy of love.? This... more...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a haunting collection of poems, graced by his dark humor and wit as he assesses both the damage and the grace in our lives. In these riveting poems, Wright declares, "I've said all that / I had to say. / In writing. / I signed my name. / It's death's move." As he faces his mortality, the poet finds a new elation... more...
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