{"product_id":"negative-blue-selected-later-poems-9780374527730","title":"Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime will append us like suit coats left out overnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilk handkerchief limp with dew, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd love will kill us--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove, and the winds from under the earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e that grind us to grain-out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Charles Wright published \u003ci\u003eAppalachia \u003c\/i\u003ein 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first two of those trilogies were collected in \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (\u003ci\u003eChickamauga \u003c\/i\u003e[1995], \u003ci\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c\/i\u003e [1997], and \u003ci\u003eAppalachia \u003c\/i\u003e[1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374527730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Wright\u003c\/b\u003e received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983 for \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1995 for \u003ci\u003eChickamauga\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 for \u003ci\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40617619390579,"sku":"9.78037E+12","price":23.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b689cc7c-cbfb-4221-90a7-9ebc6e5e9c8b.jpg?v=1670337217","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/negative-blue-selected-later-poems-9780374527730","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}