C. D Wright
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In this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories-especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitow-with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists....
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Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say? Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the movement aimed at influencing its development and addressing...
4) One Big Self
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English
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Emerging from society's most hidden and reviled structures is a poetry of majestic, riveting intensity.
5) The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The War
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A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine." Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry is poetry .From "In a Word": I love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and...
7) Shallcross
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Copper Canyon Press
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English
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"Through more than a dozen collections, C.D. Wright pushed the bounds of imagination as she explored desire, loss and physical sensation. Her posthumously published book, ShallCross features seven poem sequences that show her tremendous range in style and approach. As she considers, among other topics, some dark intuitions about human nature, she also nudges readers to question who is telling the story and where one's thought can lead."—The
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Copper Canyon Press
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[2008]
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English
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"C.D. Wright, one of America's most compelling and idiosyncratic poets, has, over several decades, developed an unmistakable voice and penetrating vision. As Publishers Weekly noted in a starred review of her last collection, "Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art; it seems it could take in anything."
Deeply personal and politically ferocious, Rising, Falling, Hovering addresses, as Wright has said elsewhere, "the commonly...
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Copper Canyon Press
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[2019]
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English
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"In her final work, C.D. Wright turns her keen documentarian gaze onto a subject native to her adopted Rhode Island: beech trees. Woven, in her typical fashion, with diaristic personal details and incisive yet lyrical voice, this collection transcends its individual subjects and voices to present a message of continuity and preservation"--
