Bye-and Bye: Selected Late Poems

WRIGHT, Charles

ISBN 10: 0374117586 / ISBN 13: 9780374117580

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2011

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A later collection of poems from this acclaimed writer who was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet who also was the 20th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. A tight very good copy with some faint soiling to the fore edge of the pages and in a very near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 191610

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bye-and Bye: Selected Late Poems
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374117586
• ISBN 13: 9780374117580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, 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). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work—including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality—showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true affinity between writer and subject, human and nature; the tenuous relationship between description and actuality; and the search for a truth that transcends change and death.

Bye-and-Bye is a wonderful introduction to the late work of one of America's finest and best-loved poets.

About the Author

Charles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.