Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (First Edition)

Wright, Charles

ISBN 10: 0374117586 / ISBN 13: 9780374117580

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011

About this Item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. First edition. First printing, with full number line including 1. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight clean copy. Octavo. Publisher's original price $30.00 on the front jacket flap. A collection of later work by Charles Wright, offering a retrospective of his meditative, landscape-infused poetry. Wright was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, and served as the 20th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374117586
• ISBN 13: 9780374117580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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, Contemporary Poets). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work―including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality―showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true affinity between writer and subject, human and nature; the tenuous relationship between description and actuality; and the search for a truth that transcends change and death.

Bye-and-Bye is a wonderful introduction to the late work of one of America's finest and best-loved poets.

About the Author

Charles Wright is the United States Poet Laureate. His poetry collections include Country Music, Black Zodiac, Chickamauga, Bye-and-Bye: Selected Later Poems, Sestets, and Caribou. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2013 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. Born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee in 1935, he currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.