“C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.” —The New York Times“C.D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature.” —Dave EggersCasting Deep
“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 gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art;
"Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art; it seems it could take in anything."Publishers Weekly"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."New York Times
"Wright shrinks back from nothing."—The Village Voice"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."—The New York Times Book Review"Wright has found a way to
Investigative journalism is the poet's realm when C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident from the Civil Rights movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns
Inspired by visits inside Louisiana state prisons - where MacArthur Fellow C. D. Wright accompanied portrait photographer Deborah Luster - One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and
An unruly paean to American poetry, Cooling Time blurs the divisions between poem, memoir, and essay, while borrowing regularly from the peculiarities and backwaters of the American idiom. The book's
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 writ
Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. "In my book," she writes, "poetry is a n
"The poet wants to know what happened next. After the flood subsides, when the world grew back, in the place of dials and switches, inside the constraints of earthly time where faces crack, f
"The poet wants to know what happened next. After the flood subsides, when the world grew back, in the place of dials and switches, inside the constraints of earthly time where faces crack, f
Is Musicuthe first major retrospective of an American originalugathers the best poems from John Taggart's fourteen volumes, ranging from early Objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced, improvisatio
Raul Zurita's Purgatory, a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical, cultural, and spiritual violence perpetrated against the Chilean people under Pinochet's military dicta
Poet C. D. Wright and photographer Deborah Luster have compiled a literary map of Arkansas and an unparalleled guidebook to its writers and the surroundings. Produced for "The Lost Roads Project," a w
It's less than six months after the events of Got and our nameless narrator has vanished off the Brooklyn grid only to end up in Atlanta, where he now lives with his ambitious but somewhat dim-witted
There's a young man living in the infamous Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. He is an orphaned college student trying to get through his sophomore year at age twenty-three, year behind the traditiona