Shallcross - by C D Wright (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this unrelenting, poignant collection, Wright confronts America's discord to evoke the painful breadth of the human experience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle." --<em>The New Yorker</em></p><p>"Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art; it seems it could take in anything." --<em>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p>"These poems are so perfect they appear to have been cut from optical glass with very sharp knives; the poet's eye moves over the treacherous landscape of the soul like a lunar eye, measuring seasons, marking time, setting houses and bodies on fire." --Rikki Ducornet</p><p>In <em>ShallCross</em>, C. D. Wright brings together brief, striking poems in tandem with the longer, unrelenting forms for which she has become recognized and beloved. Pushing the boundaries of genre, language, and poetic populism, <em>ShallCross</em> showcases Wright's singular voice that navigates a rigorous space between journalistic activism, stunning narrative, sociopolitical outrage, and erotic lyricism. This dazzling collection is further evidence that Wright was among our most thrilling and innovative contemporary poets.</p><p><em>. . . You are still young enough<br>To adopt a xolo<br>Write an opera on glass<br>Bed a chimera<br>Bedazzle and be devoured<br>The moonroof in your head <br>Slowly sliding open<br>To the scent of oleander</em></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art; it seems it could take in anything."--Publisher's Weekly "It is as if we had been invited into a sanctuary, where the originating spirits dwell--witches, demons, gods, the soul's own weird--to find their astonishing texts, written with such clarities that we can only stand speechless with gratitude and amazement." --Ann Lauterbach "These poems are so perfect they appear to have been cut from optical glass with very sharp knives; the poet's eye moves over the treacherous landscape of the soul like a lunar eye, measuring seasons, marking time, setting houses and bodies on fire." --Rikki Ducornet<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published over a dozen collections of poetry, most recently One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). She has received numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and taught for many years at Brown University.
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