A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright Wright, James; Wright, Anne and Maley, Saundra Rose
Wright, James; Wright, Anne; Maley, Saundra Rose
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
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1st edition 1st printing - signed and inscribed by Ann Wright - signed and dated by Maley - slight stain on page edge - otherwise a fine clean like new collectible in mylar cover - enjoy.
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- Title
- A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright Wright, James; Wright, Anne and Maley, Saundra Rose
- Author
- Wright, James; Wright, Anne; Maley, Saundra Rose
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Like New
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374185069
- ISBN 13
- 9780374185060
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 36 ounces
The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words.
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely--if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter to a friend. A Wild Perfection is a compelling collection that captures the exhilarating and moving correspondence between Wright and his many friends. In letters to fellow poets Donald Hall, Theodore Roethke, Galway Kinnell, James Dickey, Mary Oliver, and Robert Bly, Wright explored subjects from his creative process to his struggles with depression and illness.
A bright thread of wit, gallantry, and passion for describing his travels and his beloved natural world runs through these letters, which begin in 1946 in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, the hometown he would memorialize in verse, and end in New York City, where he lived for the last fourteen years of his life. Selected Letters is no less than an epistolary chronicle of a significant part of the midcentury American poetry renaissance, as well as the clearest biographical picture now available of a major American poet.
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About the Author
James Wright (1927-80) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. His books include Saint Judas, Shall We Gather at the River, and The Branch Will Not Break. FSG published Above the River: The Complete Poems in 1992.
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