Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems

Wright, Charles [signed]

ISBN 10: 0374220204 / ISBN 13: 9780374220204

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

About this Item

Hardcover. No date on title page. Copyright 2000. 206 pages. SIGNED and inscribed by Charles Wright on title page. Quarter bound in tan paper over boards. Gold paper over spine. Gilt stamping on front cover and spine. In very good condition. DJ in good condition--a very slight amount of wear along edges. Otherwise, DJ is clean and glossy. Binding is tight. Foot of spine and top front corner are slightly bumped. All other corners are square. A small amount of rubbing to corners. Old price written in pencil on front free endpaper. Covers and pages are clean--no stray markings throughout. Overall, a very good and clean signed copy.

Seller Inventory # 18-1467

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374220204
• ISBN 13: 9780374220204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award

Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight
On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,
Silk handkerchief limp with dew,
sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.
And love will kill us--
Love, and the winds from under the earth
that grind us to grain-out.
--from "Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn"

When Charles Wright published Appalachia in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the Boston Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century."

The first two of those trilogies were collected in Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (Chickamauga [1995], Black Zodiac [1997], and Appalachia [1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.

About the Author

Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, in 1935. His work has most recently been collected in The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 (FSG, 1990). He teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.