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One With Others
C. D. Wright
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Description for One With Others
Paperback. C.D. Wright is one of America's leading poets. Both a book-length poem and a probing work of investigative journalism, One with Others won the National Book Circle Critics Award. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 358. A Little Book of Her Days. 176 pages. C.D. Wright is one of America's leading poets. Both a book-length poem and a probing work of investigative journalism, One with Others won the National Book Circle Critics Award. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 176 x 228 x 11. Weight: 358.
C.D. Wright’s work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Long admired for the honed ferocity of her vision, she wrote with a distinctive Southern accent and a cinematic eye, cut with a secular wit that only slightly tempers her exigency. The resulting poems are hypnotic documentaries that offer what she called ‘a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning’. Bloodaxe published ... Read more
C.D. Wright’s work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Long admired for the honed ferocity of her vision, she wrote with a distinctive Southern accent and a cinematic eye, cut with a secular wit that only slightly tempers her exigency. The resulting poems are hypnotic documentaries that offer what she called ‘a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning’. Bloodaxe published ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249557
SKU
V9781852249557
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About C. D. Wright
C.D. Wright (1949-2016) published many books of poetry and prose, including two book-length poems, Deepstep Come Shining (1998) and Just Whistle (1993); Cooling Time (2005), a book comprised of poetry, memoir and essay; and One with Others (Copper Canyon Press, USA, 2010; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2013), both a book-length poem and a work of investigative journalism. Her first UK retrospective, ... Read more
Reviews for One With Others
'One with Others represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet in loading up lyric with evidentiary fact. An affecting element of this book is the way its elegiac impulses accord with, even as they chafe against, the documentary impulses' - Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker. 'Through juxtaposition and repetition, [Wright] weaves a compelling, disturbing, and often beautiful tapestry that at once ... Read more