Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporar
Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country’s most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showc
A powerfully moving meditation on life, nature, and the beyond, from one of our finest American poetsThis is an old man’s poetry, written by someone who’s spent his lifeLooking for one truth.Sorry, pa
Littlefoot, the eighteenth book by Charles Wright, one of this country's most acclaimed poets, is an extended meditation on mortality, on the narrator's search of the skies for a road map and for last
