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Shallcross / C.D. Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]Description: xvi, 153 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781556594960
  • 1556594968
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
Some old words were spoken -- 40 watts -- Poem with evening coming on -- Light bulb poem -- Cafe at the junction poem -- Country station poem -- Poem with undergrowth and two figures -- Poem taking place before lights were electrified -- Amarillo poem -- Poem in which blood flows -- Poem with a cloudburst -- Day-old widow poem -- Poem in which the lover -- Poem of a houseboat stranded in a field -- Kind of blue poem -- This much I know poem -- Outlier's poem -- Her toes poem -- Poem waiting for sleep -- Pure sensation poem -- Soldiers' home poem -- Poem with some water damage -- Dog put down in fall poem -- Poem with a dead tree -- Poem from Pearl's house -- Poem with a dozen cherries on a lodge -- Water baby poem -- Poem missing someone -- Poem with no up or down -- Poem with a dart of color -- Poem in which every other line is a falsehood -- Poem with a girl almost fifteen -- Poem from the end of Old Wire Road -- Poem in a trance -- Poem with a missing pilot -- Poem in which her mortgage comes due -- Back forty poem -- Rooming house poem -- Downtown in January poem -- Poem starved for music -- Poem without angel food -- Poem of a forest of clouds sweeping by -- Breathtaken -- The other hand -- Obscurity and empathy -- Obscurity and regret -- Obscurity and elegance -- The shearline of obscurity -- Obscurity and shelter -- Obscurity and isolation -- Obscurity and providence -- Obscurity and selfhood -- Obscurity and the amateur -- Obscurity and velocity from The obscure lives of poets -- Obscurity and voyaging -- Tree of obscurity -- Obscurity and an offering -- Obscurity and lockdown -- Obscurity and landscape -- Obscurity and aftershocks -- Obscurity and winter sun -- Obscurity and snow -- Obscurity and legacy -- Obscurity and operation upshot-knothole -- From the belly of a lamb -- Imaginary August -- Imaginary Hollywood -- Imaginary morning glory -- Imaginary waterfall -- Imaginary suitcase -- Imaginary rope -- Imaginary June -- Imaginary Mexico -- Closer -- Shallcross -- About the author -- With : after thoughts
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Through more than a dozen collections, C.D. Wright pushed the bounds of imagination as she explored desire, loss and physical sensation. Her posthumously published book, ShallCross features seven poem sequences that show her tremendous range in style and approach. As she considers, among other topics, some dark intuitions about human nature, she also nudges readers to question who is telling the story and where one's thought can lead."-- The Washington Post

"Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art; it seems it could take in anything."-- Publishers Weekly

"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."-- New York Times Book Review

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-- The Gettysburg Review

In a turbulent world, C.D. Wright evokes a rebellious and dissonant ethos with characteristic genre-bending and expanding long-form poems. Accessing journalistic writing alongside filmic narratives, Wright ranges across seven poetic sequences, including a collaborative suite responding to photographic documentation of murder sites in New Orleans. ShallCross shows plain as day that C.D. Wright is our most thrilling and innovative poet.

From "Obscurity and Elegance":

Whether or not the park was safe
she was going in. A study concluded, for a park
to be successful there had to be women.
The man next to the monument must have broken
away from her. Perhaps years
before. That the bond had been carnal is obvious.
He said he was just out clearing his head...

C.D. Wright (1949-2016) taught at Brown University for decades and published over a dozen works of poetry and prose, including One With Others, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was nominated for a National Book Award; One Big Self: An Investigation; and Rising Falling Hovering . Among her many honors are the Griffin International Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship.


Some old words were spoken -- 40 watts -- Poem with evening coming on -- Light bulb poem -- Cafe at the junction poem -- Country station poem -- Poem with undergrowth and two figures -- Poem taking place before lights were electrified -- Amarillo poem -- Poem in which blood flows -- Poem with a cloudburst -- Day-old widow poem -- Poem in which the lover -- Poem of a houseboat stranded in a field -- Kind of blue poem -- This much I know poem -- Outlier's poem -- Her toes poem -- Poem waiting for sleep -- Pure sensation poem -- Soldiers' home poem -- Poem with some water damage -- Dog put down in fall poem -- Poem with a dead tree -- Poem from Pearl's house -- Poem with a dozen cherries on a lodge -- Water baby poem -- Poem missing someone -- Poem with no up or down -- Poem with a dart of color -- Poem in which every other line is a falsehood -- Poem with a girl almost fifteen -- Poem from the end of Old Wire Road -- Poem in a trance -- Poem with a missing pilot -- Poem in which her mortgage comes due -- Back forty poem -- Rooming house poem -- Downtown in January poem -- Poem starved for music -- Poem without angel food -- Poem of a forest of clouds sweeping by -- Breathtaken -- The other hand -- Obscurity and empathy -- Obscurity and regret -- Obscurity and elegance -- The shearline of obscurity -- Obscurity and shelter -- Obscurity and isolation -- Obscurity and providence -- Obscurity and selfhood -- Obscurity and the amateur -- Obscurity and velocity from The obscure lives of poets -- Obscurity and voyaging -- Tree of obscurity -- Obscurity and an offering -- Obscurity and lockdown -- Obscurity and landscape -- Obscurity and aftershocks -- Obscurity and winter sun -- Obscurity and snow -- Obscurity and legacy -- Obscurity and operation upshot-knothole -- From the belly of a lamb -- Imaginary August -- Imaginary Hollywood -- Imaginary morning glory -- Imaginary waterfall -- Imaginary suitcase -- Imaginary rope -- Imaginary June -- Imaginary Mexico -- Closer -- Shallcross -- About the author -- With : after thoughts

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