Hardcover. No date on title page. Copyright 2000. 206 pages. SIGNED and inscribed by Charles Wright on title page. Quarter bound in tan paper over boards. Gold paper over spine. Gilt stamping on front cover and spine. In very good condition. DJ in good condition--a very slight amount of wear along edges. Otherwise, DJ is clean and glossy. Binding is tight. Foot of spine and top front corner are slightly bumped. All other corners are square. A small amount of rubbing to corners. Old price written in pencil on front free endpaper. Covers and pages are clean--no stray markings throughout. Overall, a very good and clean signed copy.

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Title: Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0374220204
ISBN 13: 9780374220204
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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The last book in a cycle of poems that garnered the author the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award takes readers in new directions, in a collection that follows Chickamauga, Black Zodiac, and Appalachia. .

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Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, in 1935. His work has most recently been collected in The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 (FSG, 1990). He teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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