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Title
Black zodiac / Charles Wright.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0374114102
9780374114107
0374525366
9780374525361
9780374114107
0374525366
9780374525361
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997.
Copyright
©1997
Language
English
Description
85 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)35919394
Summary
An anthology of poetic reflections. In Envoi, he writes: "No angst in the anthill / What happens is what happens / And what happened to happen never existed to start with / Still, who wants a life like that / No next and no before, no yesterday, no today."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 85).
Formatted Contents Note
Apologia pro vita sua
Poem half in the manner of Li Ho
Meditation on form and measure
Poem almost wholly in my own manner
Meditation on summer and shapelessness
The Appalachian book of the dead
Umbrian dreams
October II
Lives of the saints
Christmas east of the Blue Ridge
Negatives II
Lives of the artists
Deep measure
Thinking of winter at the beginning of summer
Jesuit graves
Meditation on song and structure
Sitting at dusk in the back yard after the Mondrian retrospective
Black zodiac
China mail
Disjecta membra.
Poem half in the manner of Li Ho
Meditation on form and measure
Poem almost wholly in my own manner
Meditation on summer and shapelessness
The Appalachian book of the dead
Umbrian dreams
October II
Lives of the saints
Christmas east of the Blue Ridge
Negatives II
Lives of the artists
Deep measure
Thinking of winter at the beginning of summer
Jesuit graves
Meditation on song and structure
Sitting at dusk in the back yard after the Mondrian retrospective
Black zodiac
China mail
Disjecta membra.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1998.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, 1997
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, 1997
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