Like Something Flying Backwards : New & Selected Poems

Wright, C. D.

ISBN 10: 1852247622 / ISBN 13: 9781852247621

Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2007

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• Titolo: Like Something Flying Backwards : New & Selected Poems
• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1852247622
• ISBN 13: 9781852247621
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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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’. Like Something Flying Backwards was the first UK edition of her work, and presents a wide range of her lyrics, narratives, prose poems and odes. Based on Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (2003), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, its selection was expanded to include more later work as well as new poems not then published in book form in the US, and the complete text of her book-length poem, Deepstep Come Shining.

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C.D. Wright has published eleven volumes of poetry, including two book-length poems, Deepstep Come Shining (1998) and Just Whistle (1993) as well as Cooling Time (2005), a book comprised of poetry, memoir and essay. Her many honours include a Lannan Literary Award and a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of English at Brown University, and has edited Lost Roads Publishers for the past 30 years with her husband, poet Forrest Gander. She has collaborated on many projects with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (2003). She was State Poet of Rhode Island from 1995 to 1999. Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), her first UK edition, is expanded from Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2003).