{"title":"James Wright","description":"Poetry collections by James Wright include The Green Wall (1957), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, Saint Judas (1959), The Branch Will Not Break (1963), Shall We Gather at the River (1968), and Two Citizens (1973). Wright was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1971, and the following year his Collected Poems received the Pulitzer Prize. He died in New York City in 1980, having served on the English faculties at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and Hunter College (CUNY).","products":[{"product_id":"above-the-river-the-complete-poems-paperback","title":"Above the River: The Complete Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, sturdy, and generous poems with an honesty, clarity, and stylistic range matched by very few--then or now. From his Deep Image-inspired lyrics to his Whtimanesque renderings of Neruda, Vallejo, and other Latin American poets, and from his heartfelt reflections on life, love, and loss in his native Ohio to the celebrated prose poems (set frequently in Italy) that marked the end of his important career, \u003ci\u003eAbove the River\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the complete work of a modern master. It also features a moving and insightful introduction by Donald Hall, Wright's longtime friend and colleague.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378177999071,"sku":"9780374522827","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OIiObWOGLk9780374522827.webp?v=1789250780"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-paperback-12","title":"Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first selected poems of a major poet who \"wrote with more heart than any other North American poet of the twentieth century\" (Rodney Jones, \u003ci\u003eParnassus\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than any other poet of his generation, James Wright spoke to the great sadness and hope that are inextricable from the iconography of America: its rail yards, rivers, cities, and once vast natural beauty. Speaking in the unique lyrical voice that he called his \"Ohioan,\" Wright created poems of immense sympathy for sociey's alienated and outcast figures and also of ardent wonder at the restorative power of nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e fills a significant gap in Wright's bibliography: that of an accessible, carefully chosen collection to satisfy both longtime readers and those just discovering his work. Edited and with an introduction by Wright's widow, Anne, and his close friend the poet Robert Bly, who also wrote an introduction, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal, deeply considered collection of work with pieces chosen from all of Wright's books. It is an overdue--and timely--new view of a poet whose life and work encompassed the extremes of American life.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378261688543,"sku":"9780374529024","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jlD4fTQ_nd9780374529024.webp?v=1789250891"},{"product_id":"surrender-my-shadow-to-the-shadow-of-a-horse-paperback","title":"Surrender My Shadow to the Shadow of a Horse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume gathers James Wright's most resonant poems of horses, ponies, and the fields that hold them, offering a focused entrance into one of the defining American lyric voices of the postwar period. Wright (1927-1980) writes from the Ohio River valley and the industrial Midwest with a diction that stays plain while the images turn incandescent. Across these poems, horses become more than pastoral scenery. They register human fatigue, brief deliverance, bodily grace, and the ache of leaving. Wright's \"deep image\" practice favors the decisive moment: a fence line at dusk, a muzzle in the hand, a sudden stillness in the mind when an animal meets the gaze without demand. The collection highlights how Wright's attention to animals clarifies his larger commitments: care for the marginalized, tenderness toward damaged places, and a hard-won openness to joy. Readers who come for the famous encounter of \"A Blessing\" will find its aftershocks throughout: the poems return to touch, breath, and a kind of recognition that exceeds explanation. The book arranges the work to emphasize Wright's evolving line, from earlier formal control into the looser, luminous free verse that helped earn him the Pulitzer Prize for \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1971). For longtime admirers and new readers alike, this is Wright distilled through the animal that best carries his imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51406873264351,"sku":"9780819502766","price":12.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DOUDWM3vC69780819502766.webp?v=1789574206"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/james-wright.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}