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

Charles Wright (author)

ISBN 10: 0374117586 / ISBN 13: 9780374117580

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011

About this Item

A lovely Signed First Edition copy! Mint condition in original hardcover (square, tight, unmarked) in a pristine dust jacket -- crisp, bright, tight -- which has not been price-clipped. Stated first edition; first printing (full number line present). Elegantly signed by the author on the half-title page. Suitable condition for adding to a library collection, or for presentation as a gift. Ships from NC. All books are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with protective wrapping, and shipped promptly with tracking. (E-3.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374117586
• ISBN 13: 9780374117580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature
  • Southern Literature
  • Poetry & Poets

About this title

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.