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Informationen zum Autor Charles Wright Klappentext The selected works of one of our finest American poets The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there. Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere- Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing. -from "Scar Tissue" Over the course of his work-more than twenty books in total-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 ). Oblivion Banjo , a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: "language, landscape, and the idea of God." No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. The recipient of almost every honor in poetry-the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few-and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career-for devout fans and newcomers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents from Hard Freight (1973) Homage to Ezra Pound Homage to Arthur Rimbaud Homage to Baron Corvo Homage to X The New Poem Portrait of the Poet in Abraham von Werdt's Dream Chinoiserie One Two Three Slides of Verona Grace Negatives Dog Creek Mainline Blackwater Mountain Sky Valley Rider Northanger Ridge Primogeniture Nightdream Congenital Clinchfield Station from Bloodlines (1975) Virgo Descending Easter, 1974 Cancer Rising Tattoos Notes to Tattoos Hardin County Delta Traveller Skins Notes to Skins Link Chain Bays Mountain Covenant Rural Route from China Trace (1977) Childhood Snow Self-Portrait in 2035 Morandi Dog Snapshot Indian Summer Wishes Quotidiana At Zero Sentences Death Next January 1975 Nerval's Mirror Edvard Munch Bygones Equation California Twilight Anniversary 12 Lines at Midnight Dino Campana Invisible Landscape Remembering San Zeno Born Again Captain Dog Depression Before the Solstice Stone Canyon Nocturne Reply to Chi K'ang Reunion "Where Moth and Rust Doth Corrupt" April Signature Noon Going Home Cloud River Reply to Lapo Gianni Thinking of Georg Trakl Spider Crystal Ascension Moving On Clear Night Autumn Sitting at Night on the Front Porch Saturday 6 a.m Him from The Southern Cross (1981) Homage to Paul Cézanne Mount Caribou at Night Self-Portrait Holy Thursday Virginia Reel Self-Portrait Called Back Self-Portrait Composition in Grey and Pink Laguna Blues Driving Through Tennessee Landscape with Seated Figure and Olive Trees Dog Yoga California Spring Laguna Dantesca Dog Day Vespers Portrait of the Artist with Hart Crane Portrait of the Artist with Li Po The Monastery at Vršac Hawaii Dantesca Ars Poetica Bar Giamaica, 1959-60 Gate City Breakdown New Year's Eve, 1979 The Southern Cross from The Other Side of the River (1984) Lost Bodies Lost Souls Lonesome Pine Special Two Stories The Other Side of the River Homage to Claude Lorrain Mantova Driving to Passalacqua, 1960 Italian Days Roma I Roma II Homage to Cesare Pavese Cryopexy T'ang Notebook Arkansas Traveller To Giacomo Leopardi in the Sky Looking at Pictures California Dreaming from...
