One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Wittliff Gallery Series)

Literature & Fiction

Wright, C.D.

Luster, Deborah

Poetry

Univ of Texas Pr

Poems deal with travel, holidays, truth, color, memories, the role of the poet, and families

String Light: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series)

Univ of Georgia Pr

String Light (Contemporary Poetry Series)

University of Georgia Press

Review “CD Wright’s is a poetry of Southern mountain vision brought to the streets in a language of brilliant synaesthesia, colloquial warmth and laconic wit. These are unpredictable poems of jazz, dreams, domestic violence and ‘what is written on mirrors in Louisville.’ The territory is uniquely Wright’s, but borders that of James Agee and Diane Arbus: common, strange and filled with risk. Throughout these poems there is a saxophone playing and a poignant voice making sense.” ― Carolyn Forché“Images rise from these poems like startled birds flushed from the field. What we have is the courage of a writer with and against the sad voices, and that original language of a faith in faith. This is the fluent reverie, a long drug of feeling, taking us to places and things seen clearly and with grace.” ― Norman Dubie“The dramatic and emotional vitality of CD Wright’s language, the authenticity and daring of her tone and speech, make her poems, one after the other, surprising, outrageous, exciting, moving, funny. She incorporates naturally the bitterness, loneliness and humor of the world and tradition of the blues―passionate, disappointed, violent, awry. Her voice and her talent are genuine and unmistakable. They give heart.” ― W. S. Merwin

Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues: Poems (Suny Poetry Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

State Univ of New York Pr

Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues

State University of New York Press

In this, her eighth collection of poems, C.D. Wright endeavors to penetrate the retina of fears that incessantly convene to blunt the vision required of us. While the poet sustains no delusions about achieving equilibrium outright, she nevertheless meticulously undertakes to construct an intimate, adamantine presence out of psychic peril. The vernacular architecture of Wright's poems continues to dispute the authorities, high and low, over means and measures of poetic production and presentation. With instruments no more exalted than "Just this water glass" and "this untunable spoon" she brings a bracing, idiosyncratic light into every frame. In Tremble, urban and rural sensibilities commingle in an ethical imagination to convoy the reader into unexpectedly moving experiences of perception. Throughout, as she says, "The left hand keeps it focused."

Tremble: Poems

Ecco Pr

In an acclaimed collection of taut, sensual poetry, award-winning poet C.D. Wright interweaves familiar, coloquial speech with strikingly inventive language, leaving each poem a distinctive entity, yet interconnected by linked metaphors and images.

Poetry. Lost Roads #1. A bit of foxing to outside. 41 pp., all clean, tight, and intact. A very good, tight copy of an increasingly scarce work. In heavy mylar. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0918786010. ISBN/EAN: 9780918786012. Inventory No: 008157.

Room rented by a single woman : poems

Lost Roads Pub. Co

Wright, C.D. / Luster, Deborah (photographs). Just Whistle: A Valentine. Berkeley, Kelsey St. Press, 1993. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 55 pages. Original softcover in protective mylar. Near fine condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. With her opening words, Wright ( String Light ) introduces the body, alive, not dead but dormant. A few lines later, the body is asked to take off its panties. This sensual image of the would-be naked female pervades the volume, as the poet deftly uses repetition and slight variation to keep readers attentive to what might otherwise be a difficult book to follow. The work is predominantly in prose-poem form, and some of the clearest insights into Wright's process are contained within structured line breaks. Thus she looks longingly back at the old days, when bodies were naked, and insists that the same body that had refused to remove its panties has the right to remain naked. The body becomes pregnant; the moment of giving birth is hauntingly articulated: pressure of rock on the chest . . . tremendous fall of rock. Later, the nondescript voice says there was something about a country drive, a gas station, clothes found in weeds--alluding to rape and murder. While the structure of this long cyclical poem demonstrates Wright's affinities with the Language poets, her work might best be understood alongside female performance artists who direct attention to the body. (Amazon)

Just Whistle: A Valentine

Kelsey Street Pr

Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. "In my book," she writes, "poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so." C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island. "Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical ‘goblets of magnolialight,’ and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like ‘the snakeman’ and ‘the boneman’ share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti (‘God is Louise’).… cherish Wright's latest ‘once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.’"—Publishers Weekly "For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers—still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything—human and angry and beautiful."—Michael Ondaatje "C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."—The Gettysburg Review

Deepstep Come Shining

Copper Canyon Press

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One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Wittliff Gallery Series)

String Light: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series)

String Light (Contemporary Poetry Series)

Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues: Poems (Suny Poetry Series)

Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues

Tremble: Poems

Tremble: Poems

Room rented by a single woman : poems

Just Whistle: A Valentine

Deepstep Come Shining