Franz Wright

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Vienna, Austria

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Born in Vienna, Franz Wright is the author of fourteen collections of poetry. Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Knopf 2003) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His newest collections, God’s Silence, and Earlier Poems were published by Knopf in, 2006 & 2007. Wright’s other books include The Beforelife (2001), Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), Rorschach Test (1995), The Night World and the Word Night (1993), and Midnight Postscript (1993). Mr. Wright has also translated poems by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He has received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wright has taught in many college...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,185 ratings · 144 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Walking to Martha's Vineyard 4.04 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	God's Silence 4.08 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Beforelife 3.90 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	ILL LIT: Selected & New Poems 4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wheeling Motel 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Earlier Poems 4.14 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Night World and the Word Night 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rorschach Test 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Entry In An Unknown Hand: Poems 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”
― Franz Wright, Walking to Martha's Vineyard

tags: death , grief , love

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“literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

tags: poetry

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“We are created by being destroyed.”
― Franz Wright

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