Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
by Charles Wright
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A selection of recent poems by American author Charles Wright, written as a coda to his 1998 nine-volume project, "Appalachia."Tags
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Desire discriminates and language discriminates:
They form no part of the essence of things:
each word
Is a failure, each object
We name and place
leads us another step away from the light.
Loss is its own gain.
Its secret is emptiness.
Our images lie in the flat pools of their dark selves
Like bodies of water the tide moves.
They move as the tide moves.
Its secret is emptiness.
A great collection of work by an underrated poet. In Wright's poetry, Paul Celan, Du Fu, and Dante meet and discuss the Appalachians. This kaleidoscopic conversation is nowhere more evident than the selections from Chickamauga—which, for me, are the strongest.
They form no part of the essence of things:
each word
Is a failure, each object
We name and place
leads us another step away from the light.
Loss is its own gain.
Its secret is emptiness.
Our images lie in the flat pools of their dark selves
Like bodies of water the tide moves.
They move as the tide moves.
Its secret is emptiness.
A great collection of work by an underrated poet. In Wright's poetry, Paul Celan, Du Fu, and Dante meet and discuss the Appalachians. This kaleidoscopic conversation is nowhere more evident than the selections from Chickamauga—which, for me, are the strongest.
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Charles Wright received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983 for "Country Music", the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1995 for "Chickamauga", & the Pulitzer Prize & National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 for "Black Zodiac". (Bowker Author Biography)
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