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A collection of verses celebrates a road trip through the rural South
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About the Author:
C.D. Wright, a Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of ten books of poetry, as well as several collaborative works with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. She has earned fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations, and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. She lives in Rhode Island.
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"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original" -- The Gettysburg Review
After He Lost His Sight, He Could Discriminate Colors By Their
After The Iridectomy
After The Iridectomy
Alligator Couple Bowed Up And Trolling The Swamp Alongside
The Antinomian Marsupial In The Road Fixing Us In Her
Besides, Even A Rat Can Strike A Match
Blur In. Blur Out. Just A Hypothetical Blind Woman Brought
Branches Drop Without Warning. Clouds Accumulate Around
The Colonel's Curtains Whiten In Unelaborating Rays. His
Come Shining. I Have You In Hand, Deepstep
Could I Have A Touch Of Your Vitreous Humor
Don't Touch That Dial. Here's The Rest Of The Story: These
Early Every Evening She Sits On The Steps Of Her Trailer. The
Especially In This Town. Everybody Needs Love. House Love
Everyone In Their Car Needs Love. Car Love. Meat Love. Money
First The Light Sinks To Shadows. The Shadows Become
First Visual Memory: One Of Vagrant White Splotches In A Clear-
Get The Hell Out Of Here. Can't You See I'm Not Dressed. Can't
He Hogged The Bed
Healers In These Parts Can Make One Whole Or Deathly Ill
I'm A Little Bit Queasy About The Boneman's Acupuncture
In Rome(likewise-built-on-seven-hills), Georgia, The Citizens
In The Ceaselessly Decomposing Smoke Of A Pool Hall. Seven
In The Hither World I Lead You Willingly Along The Light-bearing
In The Living Room Of A Saint. Watching Television. With An Ice
In The Seclusionary Cool Of The Car The Mind Furnishes A High
Is That Why The Newborn Looks Like An Alien. Or Did The Grey
Look For A Clear Object (case#33)
Meanwhile The Cars Continued In A Persistent Flow Down
Oncet After A Heavy Rain
Pattycake Lives Here. She's One Of The Jumping Foxes, The Double
The Poor, Miserable, Garishly Rich Woman. Like Fuchsia
Private-party Love. By One Sixty-watt Bulb. And It Be Blue
The Roman Who Sold The Memory Jug
The Scrape Of Chairs On A Stone Floor. A Sack Of Birds Escaped
Stop At Bulldog's Will You For A Six-pack Of Icehouse
There Are Enough Signs. Of The Lack Of Tenderness In The
Thrasher Said He Had To Share With Us What Was Written On The
Trusting In The Haptic Sense
We Can't Send This Message No Positive Way
We Need Preponderance Of Love
When The Aim Is To Feel Wholeness Itself. She Laid Her Hand On
Writ By Hand. Crudely Executed. In The Hopeless Objective Of
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
After He Lost His Sight, He Could Discriminate Colors By Their
After The Iridectomy
After The Iridectomy
Alligator Couple Bowed Up And Trolling The Swamp Alongside
The Antinomian Marsupial In The Road Fixing Us In Her
Besides, Even A Rat Can Strike A Match
Blur In. Blur Out. Just A Hypothetical Blind Woman Brought
Branches Drop Without Warning. Clouds Accumulate Around
The Colonel's Curtains Whiten In Unelaborating Rays. His
Come Shining. I Have You In Hand, Deepstep
Could I Have A Touch Of Your Vitreous Humor
Don't Touch That Dial. Here's The Rest Of The Story: These
Early Every Evening She Sits On The Steps Of Her Trailer. The
Especially In This Town. Everybody Needs Love. House Love
Everyone In Their Car Needs Love. Car Love. Meat Love. Money
First The Light Sinks To Shadows. The Shadows Become
First Visual Memory: One Of Vagrant White Splotches In A Clear-
Get The Hell Out Of Here. Can't You See I'm Not Dressed. Can't
He Hogged The Bed
Healers In These Parts Can Make One Whole Or Deathly Ill
I'm A Little Bit Queasy About The Boneman's Acupuncture
In Rome(likewise-built-on-seven-hills), Georgia, The Citizens
In The Ceaselessly Decomposing Smoke Of A Pool Hall. Seven
In The Hither World I Lead You Willingly Along The Light-bearing
In The Living Room Of A Saint. Watching Television. With An Ice
In The Seclusionary Cool Of The Car The Mind Furnishes A High
Is That Why The Newborn Looks Like An Alien. Or Did The Grey
Look For A Clear Object (case#33)
Meanwhile The Cars Continued In A Persistent Flow Down
Oncet After A Heavy Rain
Pattycake Lives Here. She's One Of The Jumping Foxes, The Double
The Poor, Miserable, Garishly Rich Woman. Like Fuchsia
Private-party Love. By One Sixty-watt Bulb. And It Be Blue
The Roman Who Sold The Memory Jug
The Scrape Of Chairs On A Stone Floor. A Sack Of Birds Escaped
Stop At Bulldog's Will You For A Six-pack Of Icehouse
There Are Enough Signs. Of The Lack Of Tenderness In The
Thrasher Said He Had To Share With Us What Was Written On The
Trusting In The Haptic Sense
We Can't Send This Message No Positive Way
We Need Preponderance Of Love
When The Aim Is To Feel Wholeness Itself. She Laid Her Hand On
Writ By Hand. Crudely Executed. In The Hopeless Objective Of
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherCopper Canyon Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1556590938
- ISBN 13 9781556590931
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages128
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Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
(1998)
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Book Description First Edition. Cloth in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 111 pp. The hardcover issue (there was a simultaneous paper issue) is uncommon. Wright was the publisher of Lost Roads Publishers originally founded by Frank Stanford. This volume consists of a single long poem based on a trip made through her native Arkansas. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [In a removable archival dust jacket.]. Seller Inventory # 66449
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