Poetry. Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies, and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. DEEPSTEP teems with wry, rich sentences no one else could have written...and leaps exhilaratingly among verbal registers (Publishers Weekly). DEEPSTEP COME SHINING is a single long poem based loosely on a road trip through the rural South, in which mythology merges with geography and language is on the page half-pulled out of earth and rivers--still holding onto the truth of the elements (Michael Ondaatje).
Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA
C.D. Wright is the author of a dozen collections of poetry and prose. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Wright is a professor of English at Brown University and lives outside Providence, Rhode Island.
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