Charles Wright’s bittersweet “Buffalo Yoga”

Buffalo Yoga: Poems by Charles Wright


My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Charles Wright’s Buffalo Yoga poems contain no buffaloes, but do interweave personal memories with the natural world, history and biography.

“Everything’s more essential in norther light, horses/Lie down in the dry meadow,/Clouds trail, like prairie schooners…”

And the losses of the past are like the absence of buffalo from a plain.

“Thus do we take our deaths up on our shoulders and walk and walk,/ Trying to get back

Wright’s prosy and natural style still has a subtle eloquence, and only falters a bit in the latter third of the collection. But it is a worth collection, accessible, yet deep.





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