Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems

C.D. Wright

ISBN 10: 1852247622 / ISBN 13: 9781852247621

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, UK, 2007

About this Item

' Like Something Flying Backwards ' is the first UK edition of her work, and presents a wide range of her lyrics, narratives, prose poems and odes. there is fading down one side of the spine. A good , clean and tight copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, UK
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852247622
• ISBN 13: 9781852247621
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Pictorial soft covers

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Synopsis

"One of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets" - "Publishers Weekly". C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she is an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvents herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. This first UK edition of her work presents a wide range of her lyrics, narratives, prose poems and odes. Based on "Steal Away" (2003), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, its selection has been expanded to include more later work as well as new poems not yet published in book form in the US, including a major extended poem, "Rising, Falling, Hovering."

About the Author

C.D. Wright has published eleven volumes of poetry, including two book-length poems, Deepstep Come Shining (1998) and Just Whistle (1993) as well as Cooling Time (2005), a book comprised of poetry, memoir and essay. Her many honours include a Lannan Literary Award and a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of English at Brown University, and has edited Lost Roads Publishers for the past 30 years with her husband, poet Forrest Gander. She has collaborated on many projects with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (2003). She was State Poet of Rhode Island from 1995 to 1999. Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), her first UK edition, is expanded from Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2003).