{"product_id":"wright-charles-world-of-tpb","title":"Wright, Charles: World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eFSG, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 01, 1991\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eThis important book--shot through with reflections on, explorations of, and hymns to both our natural and spiritual realms--features the three poetry collections Charles Wright published during the 1980s: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Southern Cross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1981), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of the River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1984), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eZone Journals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1988).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Since the early 1980s, Wright has increasingly abandoned short lyrics for journal poems that weave diverse thematic threads into a single autobiographical fabric. . . . [He] is at liberty to spin out extended meditations that pick up, work with, lay aside, and return again to landscapes, historical events, and ideas. . . . Wright's gift for verbal music, his ability to evoke sensory experience and a boldness of metaphorical reference get the juices flowing. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe World of the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis] a single poetic sequence worthy of comparison with such extended works as \"The Bridge\" by Hart Crane, \"The Far Field\" by Theodore Roethke, and \"Dream Songs\" by John Berryman. . . . [Wright is] a poet of great purity and originality.\" --\u003ci\u003eRichard Tillinghast, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"There is no poet of his generation whose career has unfolded with such genuine authority as Charles Wright's, or whom I read with more astonishment and gratitude. There is no book published this year I could recommend more highly.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJ.D. McClatchy, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817130143767,"sku":"9780374523268","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_143aaa6c-1b87-4e9b-8924-3d5df349bcc3.jpg?v=1703281017","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wright-charles-world-of-tpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}