{"product_id":"oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright-paperback","title":"Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe selected works of one of our finest American poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe thread that dangles us \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebetween a dark and a darker dark, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs luminous, sure, but smooth sided. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't touch it here, and don't touch it there. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't touch it, in fact, anywhere--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Scar Tissue\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of his work--more than twenty books in total--Charles Wright has built \"one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century\" (David Young, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: \"language, landscape, and the idea of God.\" No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe recipient of almost every honor in poetry--the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few--and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career--for devout fans and newcomers alike.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Wright\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was the 50th U.S. Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2015, and his poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChickamauga\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCaribou\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.7 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759955968288,"sku":"9780374539085","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/face47f77e6d2d3c7e327f89cf45326b.webp?v=1780167105","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}