{"title":"C. D. Wright","description":"C.D. Wright: C.D. Wright has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose, including the recent volumes One With Others, which was nominated for a National Book Award, One Big Self: An Investigation, and Rising Falling Hovering. Among her many honors are the Robert Creeley Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.","products":[{"product_id":"the-poet-the-lion-talking-pictures-el-farolito-a-wedding-in-st-roch-the-big-box-store-the-warp-in-the-mirror-spring-midnights-fire-all-paperback","title":"The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire \u0026 All - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright shrinks back from nothing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"C.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion to her astonishing collection of prose \u003ci\u003eCooling Time\u003c\/i\u003e, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e seeing, and calls it \"the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine.\" Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003epoetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"In a Word\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with your mouth open, and an Egyptian one-eye was an egg, sunny side up, and a nation sack was a flannel amulet, worn only by women, to be touched only by women, especially around Memphis. Red sacks for love and green for money...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent volume, \u003ci\u003eOne With Others\u003c\/i\u003e, was a National Book Award finalist. Among her many honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376676798687,"sku":"9781556594854","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/P0e-e5olJ9781556594854.webp?v=1789221668"},{"product_id":"deepstep-come-shining-paperback","title":"Deepstep Come Shining - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. \"In my book,\" she writes, \"poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight, ' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').... cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers--still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything--human and angry and beautiful.\"--Michael Ondaatje \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378326438111,"sku":"9781556590924","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/X4yC5HTgry9781556590924.webp?v=1789254406"},{"product_id":"one-with-others-a-little-book-of-her-days-paperback","title":"One with Others: [A Little Book of Her Days] - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonored in \"Best Books of the Year\" listings from \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, National Public Radio, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and The Huffington Post.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOne With Others\u003c\/i\u003e represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own.\"-- National Public Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eToday, Gentle Reader, \u003cbr\u003ethe sermon once again: \"Segregation\u003cbr\u003eAfter Death.\" Showers in the a.m.\u003cbr\u003eThe threat they say is moving from the east.\u003cbr\u003eThe sheriff's club says Not now. Not\u003cbr\u003enokindofhow. Not never. The children's\u003cbr\u003eminds say Never waver. Air\u003cbr\u003efanned by a flock of hands in the old\u003cbr\u003efuneral home where the meetings\u003cbr\u003ewere called [because Mrs. Oliver\u003cbr\u003eowned it free and clear], and\u003cbr\u003ethat selfsame air, sanctified\u003cbr\u003eand doomed, rent with racism, and\u003cbr\u003eit percolates up from the soil itself . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines explosive incidents grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitow--with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, and activists. This history leaps howling off the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose. Among her honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378350686431,"sku":"9781556593888","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6Zp88NxB8s9781556593888.webp?v=1789254469"},{"product_id":"the-essential-c-d-wright-paperback","title":"The Essential C.D. Wright - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpanning four decades of writing--and including never-before-seen poems--\u003ci\u003eThe Essential C.D. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e carries the reverence and wisecracking lyricism of poems that reshaped American poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Essential C.D. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e gathers rare selections across the famed poet's entire oeuvre--from the first book, \u003ci\u003eAlla Breve Loving\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), through to \u003ci\u003eShallCross, \u003c\/i\u003e which was in production at the time of her unexpected death in 2016. Tracing a writing life that spans more than four decades, this essential collection illuminates works that remain empowered by an unrelenting independence, a reverence for mentors, and wry, wisecracking lyricism. A formally restless, energetic, uncompromising, and utterly unique voice, C.D. Wright introduced a contemporary audience to the promise and power of docupoetics, while pushing the musical boundaries of vernacular speech and reshaping American poetry. With a moving introduction by Forrest Gander, this volume cements C.D. 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