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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge, And evening with its blotting paper lifts off the light. Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines --"Landscape with Missing Overtones" Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence where the reader says to himself, if this is not wisdom, I don't know what is" (The New York Review of Books). The poems in Buffalo Yoga are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch--"crows in a caterwaul" are "scored like black notes in the bare oak"--and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties." Synopsis:Luminous new poems from one who 'has long been a poet of gorgeous description' -William Logan, "The New Criterion "Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation. "Don't just do something, sit there. "And so I have, so I have, "the seasons curling around me like smoke, "Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound. -from "Body and Soul II" This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in "Negative Blue, of his "Appalachian Book of the Dead" a trilogy of trilogies hailed among the great long poems of the century-- (James Longenbach, "Boston Review). In "A Short History of the Shadow, Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead. Synopsis:"The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge, "
"And evening with its blotting paper"
" lifts off the light."
"Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines"
--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"
Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence where the reader says to himself, if this is not wisdom, I don't know what is" ("The New York Review of Books"). The poems in" Buffalo Yoga" are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch--"crows in a caterwaul" are "scored like black notes in the bare oak"--and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties." About the AuthorCharles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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