Steal Away: Selected and New Poems

C.D. Wright

jul 2013. · Copper Canyon Press

O ovoj e-knjizi

Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright—with her Southern accent and cinematic eye—couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning."

from "Our Dust"

You didn’t know my weariness, error, incapacity,
I was the poet
of shadow work and towns with quarter-inch
phone books, of failed
roadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and
sharpening shops,
jobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline
factory on the penitentiary road.

"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."—The New Yorker

"Wright shrinks back from nothing."—Voice Literary Supplement

"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire."—American Letters

C.D. Wright has published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.

O autoru

C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas on January 6, 1949. She attended Memphis State University and the University of Arkansas. Her collections of poetry include Cooling Time and One with Others, which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her works also won the Whiting Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She won a MacArthur genius award and a Guggenheim fellowship. She was a writing professor at Brown University. She died suddenly on January 12, 2016 at the age of 67.