Caribou: Poems

Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets
Book Format: Paperback

A powerfully moving meditation on life and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets Charles Wright's truth the truth of nature, of man's yearning for the divine, of aging is at the heart of the renowned poet's latest collection, Caribou. This is an elegy to transient beauty, a song for the stepchild hour, / belonging to neither the light nor dark, / The hour of disappearing things, and an expression of Wright's restless questing for a reality beyond the one before our eyes (We are all going into a world of dark . . . It's okay. That's where the secrets are, / The big ones, the ones too tall to tell). Caribou's strength is in its quiet, wry profundity. It's good to be here, Wright tells us. It's good to be where the world's quiescent, and reminiscent. And to be here in the pages of this stirring collection is more than good; Caribou is another remarkable gift from the poet around whose influence the whole world seems to orbit in a kind of meditative, slow circle (Poetry).

About Charles Wright
Charles Wright is the United States Poet Laureate. His poetry collections include Country Music, Black Zodiac, Chickamauga, Bye-and-Bye: Selected Later Poems, Sestets, and Caribou. 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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SKU BK-9780374535155
Barcode # 9780374535155
Brand Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Artist / Author Charles Wright
Shipping Weight 0.4500kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 20.300m
Assembled Height 1.000m
Assembled Width 13.700m
Type Paperback

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