Sestets

Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Category: Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets
Book Format: Paperback

Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country’s most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright’s acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: “a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous.” Like his previous books, Sestets is seeded with the lyrics of old love songs and spirituals, and “there is always room to connect his highly polished poems to the world where most of us lead mundane lives” (Miami Herald). Soaring and earthy, lyrical and direct, Charles Wright is an American treasure, and his search for a truth that transcends change and death settles finally on the beauties of nature and language: “Time is a graceless enemy, but purls as it comes and goes.”

About Charles Wright
Charles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2014, he was named Poet Laureate of the United States.

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SKU BK-9780374532147
Barcode # 9780374532147
Brand Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Artist / Author Charles Wright
Shipping Weight 0.1100kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.050m
Shipping Length 0.216m
Assembled Length 14.000m
Assembled Height 21.600m
Assembled Width 50.000m
Type Paperback

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