{"product_id":"steal-away-selected-and-new-poems-paperback","title":"Steal Away: Selected and New Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, \u003ci\u003eSteal Away \u003c\/i\u003epresents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new retablos and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright--with her Southern accent and cinematic eye--couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom Our Dust\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity, \u003cbr\u003eI was the poet\u003cbr\u003eof shadow work and towns with quarter-inch\u003cbr\u003ephone books, of failed\u003cbr\u003eroadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and\u003cbr\u003esharpening shops, \u003cbr\u003ejobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline\u003cbr\u003efactory on the penitentiary road.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWright shrinks back from nothing.--\u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright \u003c\/b\u003ehas published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eC.D. Wright, a Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of eleven books of poetry, as well as several collaborative works with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. She has earned fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations, and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. She lives in Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.4 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771619344672,"sku":"9781556591945","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/64ec512ad4e43c9ab6641559d80218f7.webp?v=1780389706","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/steal-away-selected-and-new-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}