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9780374530839

Scar Tissue Poems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780374530839

  • ISBN10:

    0374530831

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-07-24
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Summary

InScar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality"A thing is not an image"but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subjectlanguage and "the ghost of god." And in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, "something un-ordinary persists." Scar Tissueis a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts in the entire astonishing spectrum of existence" (Booklist).

Author Biography

Charles 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.

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“The phrasemaking lyricism of this 17th volume plays to Wright's familiar strengths: 42 long-lined poems mix calm, Taoist-inflected wisdom with lush descriptions of landscapes in Italy, North Carolina (where he grew up) and Virginia's Blue Ridge country (where he now lives) . . . Wright makes a slight departure from his recent books in the valedictory, even triumphant, feel of this one: long content to chronicle flux and presence, Wright looks these days to the future, in which the world and its beauty outlast us.” —Publishers Weekly

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