The Branch Will Not Break

by Wright, James

• ISBN13: 9780819568410
• ISBN10: 0819568414
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-03
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

In celebration of fifty years of publishing, Wesleyan University Press is pleased to present a special miniature edition of this best-selling volume of poetry by James Wright. Originally published in 1963, The Branch Will Not Break was one of the first volumes of poetry published by Wesleyan. The entire book is reproduced in this appealing small format.

Author Biography

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980) received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1972 for his Collected Poems. He was well known for his translations of Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo and for his poems about the Midwest.

Table of Contents

As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor

Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium

In Fear of Harvests

Three Stanzas From Goethe

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

The Jewel

In the Face of Hatred

Fear Is What Quickens Me

A Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle That I Threw into a Cully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent Hour

Stages on a Journey Westward

How My Fever Left

Miners

In Ohio

Two Poems About President Harding

Eisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959

In Memory of a Spanish Poet

The Undermining of the Defense Economy

Twilights

Two Hangovers

Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me

Two Horses Playing in the Orchard

By a Lake in Minnesota

Beginning

From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower

March

Trying to Pray

Two Spring Charms

Spring Images

Arriving in the Country Again

In the Cold House

Snowstorm in the Midwest

Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960

American Wedding

A Prayer to Escape From the Market Place

Rain

Today I Was Happy, So I Made this Poem

Mary Bly

To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota

I Was Afraid of Dying

A Blessing

Milkweed

A Dream of Burial

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