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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 3 false Thu Jul 05 11:42:43 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 22:34:30 -0700 2007 Deepstep Come Shining, the eye and the ear are center. In the book, the result of a road trip taken with photographer Deborah Luster through Georgia and the Carolinas, the speaker of the poem is the “hand of the selenographer, mapper of lost roads.” Wright’...more...]]> 38987483 242201 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 4 1 false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 21:44:22 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 22:03:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52371200 762683 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 1 false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 18:21:55 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 04:36:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 6389196 225549 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 11:35:09 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 08:36:13 -0700 2007 66070066 148949 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 0 false Mon Aug 03 17:55:19 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 17:57:11 -0700 2009 47677522 762524 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 2 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:34:51 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:37:34 -0800 2009 15188805 898933 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 3 0 false Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 17:05:04 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 17:22:56 -0800 2008 3.5 out of 5
A teacher of mine recommended this book of poetry to me as an example of poetry that is interested in accessing the wondrous through the commonplace. I think, though, that this poetry is more interested in consuming the commonplace the way...more...]]> 10079766 653409 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 4 0 false Fri Dec 07 05:21:31 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 05:32:44 -0800 2007 On The Road...more...]]> 56272995 836834 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 0 0 false Sat May 16 07:36:20 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 07:38:41 -0700 2009 School.]]> 48942517 820928 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 3 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 12:26:02 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 12:26:49 -0700 2009 4512194 165636 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 0 false Mon Aug 13 21:03:35 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 02 11:02:51 -0700 2007
It will be a hu...more...]]> 23807948 1209957 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 16:27:17 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 16:36:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 32884861 556887 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 18:46:08 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 18:48:28 -0700 2008
Something of a travelogue about small towns in Georgia, it feels equally indebted to the Odyssey and HD's _Helen in Egypt_ (which of course is Homeric, too). It weaves together several different voices and stories to create a cras...more...]]> 32206425 113754 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."-The Gettysburg Review]]> 5 0 false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 16:52:09 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 21:23:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 11611859 545392 139878 155659092X 9781556590924 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172113709m/139878.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139878.Deepstep_Come_Shining 4.37 243
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight,' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').… cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"-Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers-still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything-human and angry and beautiful."-Michael Ondaatje

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