Country Music: Selected Early Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Abstract: A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Read more... Content: Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword: "Charles Wright's Country Music" by David St. John Preface The Grave of the Right Hand Aubade The Poet Grows Older The Voyage Nocturne Storm Hard Freight Homage to Ezra Pound Homage to Arthur Rimbaud Homage to Baron Corvo Homage to X The New Poem Portrait of the Poet in Abraham von Werdt's Dream Chinoiserie One Two Three White Firstborn Slides of Verona Grace Negatives The Fever Toy Notes for Oscar Wilde at San Miniato Oscar Wilde at San Miniato Nocturne Yellow Dog Creek Mainline. Blackwater MountainSky Valley Rider Sex Northhanger Ridge Primogeniture Nightdream Congenital Clinchfield Station Bloodlines Virgo Descending Easter, 1974 Cancer Rising Tattoos Notes to Tattoos Hardin County Delta Traveller Skins Notes to Skins Link Chain Bays Mountain Covenant Rural Route China Trace Childhood Snow Self-Portrait in 2035 Morandi Dog Snapshot Indian Summer Wishes Quotidiana At Zero Sentences Death Next January 1975 Nerval's Mirror Edvard Munch Bygones Equation California Twilight Anniversary 12 Lines at Midnight Dino Campana. Invisible LandscapeRemembering San Zeno Born Again Captain Dog Depression Before the Solstice Stone Canyon Nocturne Reply to Chi K'ang Reunion "Where Moth and Rust Doth Corrupt" April Signature Noon Going Home Cloud River Reply to Lapo Gianni Thinking of Georg Trakl Spider Crystal Ascension Moving On Clear Night Autumn Sitting at Night on the Front Porch Saturday 6 a.m. Him About the Author. A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career. Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand , to the extraordinary China Trace , this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John. <P>Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.</P>

A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.

Library Journal

One of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music (Chickamauga, LJ 4/1/95).

Contains eighty-eight early poems selected from the American poet's first four books published between 1970 and 1977