Author: Jonathan Blunk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374537937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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authorized biography explores the poet’s life and work with exceptional candor, making full use of Wright’s extensive unpublished work—letters, poems, translations, and personal journals.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.
Author: James Wright
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374522820
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 437
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Poems deal with love, travel, myth, friendship, the past, the seasons, mortality, and language.
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: James Wright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819569844
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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A new book of poetry from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master poet These new poems by the author of Saint Judas and The Green Wall embody a sharp break with his earlier work. Their impact is well described by the British critic Michael Hamburger: "He has absorbed the work of modern Spanish and other continental poets and evolved a medium of his own. This medium dispenses with argument and rhetoric, and presents the pure substance of poetry, images which are 'the objective correlatives' of emotion and feeling. It is only in the new collection that Wright has found this wholly distinctive voice." Mr. Wright is well known for his previous books and his contributions to virtually every literary journal of importance. His numerous honors include a Fullbright fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and many other prizes and awards.
Author: James Wright
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819560223
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.
Author: Hermann Hesse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466835303
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume—filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons—that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.
Author: Liberty Kovacs MFT MSN
Publisher: Libby Kovacs
ISBN: 9781931741965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Liberty Kovacs' life story has all the elements of the American Dream, both its myth and its reality. Breaking free from the patriarchal rule of her Greek immigrant family, she set an uneasy but independent course that led to her becoming a nurse and marrying fellow Ohioan, the poet James Wright. Headed for the fabled Land of Happiness, Life broke in with all its unpredictable misery: living in Minneapolis with their two sons, the marriage was soon riven by alcoholism, angers, unspeakable trauma and eventually bitter divorce. Bereft but courageous, Liberty set a new course and headed west to San Francisco where she had a scholarship to study psychiatric nursing. A single mother, she experienced triumphs in her profession, married again and bore a third son - that household too fell victim to unhappiness and despairs. Yet with each blow, her spirit rose again and again, never giving up on herself or her sons, whom she writes about with disarming openness. -Merrill Leffler, publisher of Dryad Press, author of Partly Panemonium, Partly Love, Take Hold
Author: Ariel Francisco
Publisher: C&r Press
ISBN: 9781936196753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. ALL MY HEROES ARE BROKE is a poetry collection written from the perspective of a first generation American coming to terms with the implicit struggles and disillusionment of the "American Dream." The first section takes place in New York, both implicitly and explicitly, and serves to introduce the speaker and reveal aspects of his family's history. The second section takes place in Florida, and continues to further exemplify the speaker's growing cynicism towards the circumstances of his life, and the peculiar atmosphere of solitude that it creates. ALL MY HEROES ARE BROKE primarily uses two forms: short, image driven poems inspired by the works of Robert Bly and Po Chu-I; and longer narrative poems that reveal more personal information about the speaker, in the manner of Li-Young Lee and Frank O'Hara, allowing the speaker to project his own life onto the surroundings and the people of those larger communities.
Author: James Arlington Wright
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 9780819520432
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The work of the young mid-western poet offers prophetic messages on the banality of life and man's paradoxical fear of death
Author: James Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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