Gray boards. Signed by Wright with a short personalization to the poet, Bruce Boston. Boston has written his name in pen to the front free endpaper. An excellent copy but for a minor bump to one lower spine corner and one upper fore corner. Also a tiny ding to the upper, rear board. The dust jacket has only minimal wear, not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

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Title: Chickamauga: Poems
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0374121087
ISBN 13: 9780374121082
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.'"

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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.

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