<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>MacArthur Genius C.D. Wright is one of the most original and passionate thinkers on the art of poetry.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Wright shrinks back from nothing.--<i>The Village Voice</i></p><p>Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.--<i>The New Yorker</i></p><p>C.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets.--<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><p>A companion to her astonishing collection of prose <i>Cooling Time</i>, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being <i>and</i> seeing, and calls it the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine. Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry <i>is </i>poetry.</p><p><b>From In a Word: </b></p><p><i>I love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with your mouth open, and an Egyptian one-eye was an egg, sunny side up, and a nation sack was a flannel amulet, worn only by women, to be touched only by women, especially around Memphis. Red sacks for love and green for money...</i></p><p><b>C.D. Wright</b>'s most recent volume, <i>One With Others</i>, was a National Book Award finalist. Among her many honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>C.D. Wright: C.D. Wright has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose, including the recent volumes One With Others, which was nominated for a National Book Award, One Big Self: An Investigation, and Rising Falling Hovering. Among her many honors are the Robert Creeley Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.