The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko & James Wright - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555975437 ISBN 13: 9781555975432

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Delicacy and Strength of Lace

The timeless exchange of advice and friendship between two of our greatest literary talents

Dear Leslie: Of course I can't know whether or not the world looks strange to God. But sometimes it looks strange to me.

Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers' conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising her book Ceremony. The letters began formally, and then each writer gradually opened to the other, sharing his or her life, work, and struggles. The second meeting between the two writers came in a hospital room, as Wright lay dying of cancer.

The New York Times wrote something of Wright that applies to both writers--of qualities that this exchange of letters makes evident: "Our age desperately needs his vision of brotherly love, his transcendent sense of nature, the clarity of his courageous voice."

About this title

About the Authors

Anne Wright, wife of James Wright (1927-80) edited Wild Perfection and Selected Poems.

Joy Harjo is a poet, musician, and author, and was the first Native American United States Poet Laureate. She has written fifteen books of poetry and produced four CDs. A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she is a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation. Harjo lives in Honolulu and teaches writing at the University of New Mexico.

Edition details

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555975437
• ISBN 13: 9781555975432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Wright Anne