Walking to Martha's Vineyard
by Franz Wright
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In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the "Resurrection of the little apple tree outside my window," he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding "what death . . . There is only mine or yours, - but the world will be filled with the living." In prayer like poems he invokes the one "who spoke the world / into being" and celebrates a dazzling universe-snowflakes descending show more at nightfall, the intense yellow petals of the September sunflower, the planet adrift in a blizzard of stars, the simple mystery of loving other people. As Wright overcomes a natural tendency toward loneliness and isolation, he gives voice to his hope for "the only animal that commits suicide," and, to our deep pleasure, he arrives at a place of gratitude that is grounded in the earth and its moods. A new collection by the author of The Beforelife reflects his regard for life in every form and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal, sharing through a series of prayer-like works his observations of such topics as a suicidal animal, snowflakes, and the mysteries of love. show lessTags
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This book won a Pulitzer Prize, and deserved it. The author finds beauty and consolation among the rugged truths of mental illness and mortality.
Very good condition. Book plate glued inside front cover. Cloth cover in pristine condition; dust jacket shows very minor wear.
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Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 - May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. His collection of poems entitled, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Wright was born in show more Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. In 1996, Wright won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Wright died of cancer at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May 2015. Deborah Garrison, his longtime editor at Knopf, told the Los Angeles Times: "Franz wrote fearlessly about mental illness, addiction and loneliness as well as about faith and the unending beauty of his world, no matter how broken; he never wrote a line that wasn't fiercely important to him, musical, as witty as it was deadly serious." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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