Collected Poems - Paperback

by James Wright (Author), Anne Wright (Editor), Robert Bly (Editor)

A collection of authentic, profound and beautiful poems.

Author Biography

JAMES WRIGHT was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1927. He was well known for his translations of such Spanish poets as Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo and for his poems about the Midwest. He received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1972 for his Collected Poems. Other books of his published by Wesleyan are Saint Judas, The Branch Will Not Break, Shall We Gather at the River, and Above the River: The Complete Poems (co-published with Farrar, Straus and Giroux). James Wright died in 1980.