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Title: Oblivion Banjo
Author: WRIGHT CHARLES
Illustrator: NOTES, INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/12/2020
Imprint: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
<i>The thread that dangles us </i>
<i>between a dark and a darker dark, </i>
<i>Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. </i>
<i>Don’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there. </i>
<i>Don’t touch it, in fact, anywhere—</i>
<i>Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.</i>
—from \”Scar Tissue\”
Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Charles Wright has built \”one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century\” (David Young, <i>Contemporary Poets</i>). <i>Oblivion Banjo</i>, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright’s poetry: \”language, landscape, and the idea of God.\” No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality.
The recipient of almost every honor in poetry—the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few—and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. <i>Oblivion Banjo</i> is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career—for devout fans and newcomers alike.
ISBN: 9780374539085
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 784