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A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright
Wright, James. Ed(S): Wright, Anne; Maley, Saundra Rose
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paperback. The thoughtful, inspiring letters of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Editor(s): Wright, Anne; Maley, Saundra Rose. Num Pages: 672 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 903.
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter-the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely-if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter. A Wild Perfection is a riveting collection that captures the exhilarating and moving correspondence between Wright and his many friends. In the letters to fellow poets Donald Hall, Theodore Roethke, Galway Kinnell, James Dickey, Mary Oliver, and Robert Bly, Wright ... Read more
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter-the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely-if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter. A Wild Perfection is a riveting collection that captures the exhilarating and moving correspondence between Wright and his many friends. In the letters to fellow poets Donald Hall, Theodore Roethke, Galway Kinnell, James Dickey, Mary Oliver, and Robert Bly, Wright ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press United States
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819568724
SKU
V9780819568724
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About Wright, James. Ed(S): Wright, Anne; Maley, Saundra Rose
JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1972 for his Collected Poems, published by Wesleyan. ANNE WRIGHT is a retired teacher in the field of early childhood education, and James Wright's widow. SAUNDRA ROSE MALEY is the author of Solitary Apprenticeship: James Wright and German Poetry. She teaches at Montgomery College and Catholic University.
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