Author: James Wright
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Includes: letter, 21 October 1829, Cheraw, South Carolina to D.A. Davis, Fayetteville, North Carolina, about the recovery transfer of an enslaved African American in payment of a debt; and letter, 24 August 1842, to J. Hewlett of New York sending money to pay an account.
Author: James Wright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819568724
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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The thoughtful, inspiring letters of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Author: Sir James Wright
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Languages : en
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Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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"The Delicacy and Strength of Lace" "Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright" This moving, eighteen-month exchange of correspondence chronicles the friendship-through-the-mail of two extraordinary writers. Leslie Marmon Silko is a poet and novelist. James Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his "Collected Poems." They met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising her book "Ceremony." The letters begin formally, and then each writer gradually opens to the other, venturing to share his or her life, work and struggles. The second meeting between the two writers came in a hospital room, as James Wright lay dying of cancer. The "New York Times" wrote something of Wright that applies to both writers-- of qualities that this exchange of letters makes evident. "Our age desperately needs his vision of brotherly love, his transcendent sense of nature, the clarity of his courageous voice."
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Author: Frank Graziano
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472081561
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Features poems, an essay, and previously unpublished letters by James Wright, plus excerpts from interviews, memoirs, and elegies
Author: Jonathan Blunk
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374717370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
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The authorized and sweeping biography of one of America’s most complex, influential, and enduring poets In the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927–1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a fierce, single-minded devotion to his work, Wright escaped the steel town of his Depression-era childhood in the Ohio valley to become a revered professor of English literature and a Pulitzer Prize winner. But his hometown remained at the heart of his work, and he courted a rough, enduring muse from his vivid memories of the Midwest. A full-throated lyricism and classical poise became his tools, honesty and unwavering compassion his trademark. Using meticulous research, hundreds of interviews, and Wright’s public readings, Jonathan Blunk’s authorized biography explores the poet’s life and work with exceptional candor, making full use of Wright’s extensive unpublished work—letters, poems, translations, and personal journals. Focusing on the tensions that forced Wright’s poetic breakthroughs and the relationships that plunged him to emotional depths, Blunk provides a spirited portrait, and a fascinating depiction of this turbulent period in American letters. A gifted translator and mesmerizing reader, Wright appears throughout in all his complex and eloquent urgency. Discerning yet expansive, James Wright will change the way the poet’s work is understood and inspire a new appreciation for his enduring achievement.
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Author: Jonathan Blunk
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ISBN: 0374178593
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 513
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"The sweeping authorized biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poets" --
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