Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
of C.D. Wright
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Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wrightâs 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, Wrightâwith her Southern accent and cinematic eyeâcouples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning."from "Our Dust"You didnât know my weariness, error, incapacity,I was the poetof shadow work and towns with quarter-inchphone books, of failedroadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs andsharpening shops,jobs at the weapons plant and the Maybellinefactory 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."âThe New Yorker"Wright shrinks back from nothing."âVoice Literary Supplement"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire."âAmerican LettersC.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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher Copper Canyon Press
- Publication Date September 1st 2003
- First Publication 2002
- Language English
- ISBN 9781556591945
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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