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mairebear
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KC
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“Originally assigned to me in college as a prelude to an exercise (in which, you guessed it, we had to write six-line poems), I decided to revisit this largely to see if I should keep it on my shelves.
For the first third, I wondered why I had kept it. The first poem ("Tomorrow") was striking, but I was less impressed with the abstractions. Luckily, I was committed to reading the entire collection.
There are stunning lines like, "It is the hour of transmutation" or "The older I become, the more the landscape resembles me" both followed by beautiful, natural imagery. When the poems are grounded, nature-based, that's when these poems shine.
When they try to be more irreverent (all of "Tutti Frutti," a jarring poem on Little Richard, or "What's up, grand architect of the universe?"), it falls short. A lot of the abstraction happens early on, but the later poems have clear, quiet images of wildlife, forests, water. So, keeping this on the shelf to revisit again.”
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Ellie
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About Charles Wright
is the United States Poet Laureate. His poetry collections include
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. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2013 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. Born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee in 1935, he currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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