In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed cer...
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Oct 27, 2010
Kathleen
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I finished this today. Really liked it for its terrible honesty and rawness, its odd and striking images, and something tentative and yet "well, here it is" about it. Seemed to match life and his tortured life quite well. I hope this gave him some peace and uplift. Likewise, I hope it gave his wife some peace, as he wrote the poems for her he says on his dedication page, while tucked away, presumably, to recover from alcoholism, as the cover and many of the poems suggests, includin
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May 05, 2009
Richard
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This just-pre-Walking to Martha's Vineyard collection just doesn't smack of the brilliance of Vineyard. Wright's sledgehammer imagery isn't quite here, the painful wrenching of the gut, the deathly and joyous insights. The shortest ones in here are best, but he far outdid himself with the next collection.
Dec 08, 2009
Jonathan
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I find these poems more startling and fun and powerful than his Pulitzer prize book and his most recent books. Something about them being born out of the love for his wife. Something about the dark twists his images can take i.e. condom/body bad. I really enjoyed this one.
Sep 17, 2009
Sunni
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Interesting titles that have nothing to do with the poems themselves. It was very spare and bright (like the title of the book) and reflected a lot of his father's work, but he is definitely a master of his own poetry. Some poems were powerful, others I just didn't "get"
Apr 01, 2008
Craig
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This is my first taste of Franz Wright's poetry.
Initially, I thought his spare, open language felt amateurish in a way and was wondering how he could have won a Pulitzer.
However, there is a certain power to the tiny poems in this volume, a certain pull. I found myself falling for the words. I found myself truly loving many of the poems in the book. I will definitely look into more of his work.
Probably my favorite of the book:
HOMAGE
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Initially, I thought his spare, open language felt amateurish in a way and was wondering how he could have won a Pulitzer.
However, there is a certain power to the tiny poems in this volume, a certain pull. I found myself falling for the words. I found myself truly loving many of the poems in the book. I will definitely look into more of his work.
Probably my favorite of the book:
HOMAGE
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Jun 02, 2009
Terry
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Not at all my cup of tea. Spare to the point of "this is... a finished...poem? Really?" I kinda liked a handful, which is not enough to endorse the book as a whole.
Mar 21, 2008
Abraham
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Disappointing. It's a raw story yet he manages to bore you with it by the end. There are gems: "Homage," "Bodybag." But he took the easy way out too often.
Apr 25, 2008
Natalia
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Stacatto visions of the darkness of addiction and the light of redemption and faith. These poems are gorgoeous!
Mar 17, 2008
Gary
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The poems I liked, I loved deeply and unsettlingly. The other poems I could live without.
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