The Southern Cross [Poetry]

Wright, Charles

Verlag: Random House, 1981

Beschreibung

THE SOUTHERN CROSS, poetry by Charles Wright, hardcover with dust jacket (not price-clipped), stated first edition, 2nd printing, 1981. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, marks, or dog-ears. Not a library book, but there is a remainder mark on the edge of the pages and one on the bottom edge. No bookplate or signature of prior owner. Tight binding. The black cloth boards are in good condition (bright gilt lettering, slight fading along top edge, faint streak on back cover). The dust jacket is in good condition (crinkling along top edge, somewhat faded spine). 8 ½ x 5 ½, 65 pages, 8 ounces XX [From the dust jacket flaps] In a long appreciation of Charles Wright's work published in The New Yorker in 1979, Helen Vendler remarked that his poems ?cluster, aggregate, radiate, add layers like pearls." The poems in The Southern Cross, Wright's fifth collection, are vivid perceptions of the physical world, the world of the poet's life in Tennessee, Montana, California and the luminous, mythic Italy that reappears throughout the poems. It has been said that Charles Wright is creating the most beautiful poetry now being written in America. The elegance and precision of his work are matched by the subtlety with which it absorbs the past: the poet's sense of self finally becomes the poem itself. The result is a new way of speaking that is wholly Wright's own, and intoxicating as pure sound, hypnotic as image and movement and disturbing in its elegiac power. His poetry bears powerful witness to man's tragic dialogue with the world around him. CHARLES WRIGHT, who was born in Tennessee in 1935, is the author of four previous books of poetry: The Grave of the Right Hand, Hard Freight, Bloodlines and China Trace, and a translation of Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Poems, which won the 1979 P.E.N. Translation Prize. He teaches at the University of California at Irvine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001363

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Southern Cross [Poetry]

Verlag: Random House

Erscheinungsdatum: 1981

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition