Poetry. Memoir. An unruly paean to American poetry, COOLING TIME blurs the divisions between poem, memoir, and essay, while borrowing regularly from the peculiarities and backwaters of the American idiom. The book's title derives from a legal line of defense, unique to Texas courts: if a person kills someone before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult, he is not guilty of murder. Ever focused on possibilities, C. D. Wright, who was called "one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets" by Publishers Weekly and just received a MacArthur Fellowship, demonstrates that "the search for models becomes a search for alternatives." Filled with humor, eroticism, and a hypnotic fascination with language, COOLING TIME is a prickly love-letter to the life of poetry.

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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