Chickamauga: Poems

Charles Wright

ISBN 10: 0374121087 / ISBN 13: 9780374121082

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995

About this Item

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Signed by Charles Wright on the front end page. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some creasing. Tight binding. Notations and underlining throughout the text (in pencil). Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.65.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chickamauga: Poems
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374121087
• ISBN 13: 9780374121082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.65 pounds
• Signed: signed and inscribed by author

About this title

Synopsis

This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal noted: "Wright is one of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music. Following his self-prescribed regimen of purgatio, illuminato, and contemplatio, Wright spins one lovely lyric after another on such elemental subjects as sky, trees, birds, months, and seasons. But the real subject is the thinking process itself and the mysterious alchemy of language: 'The world is a language we never quite understand.'"

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.