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Black Zodiac Book

"Time and light are the same thing somewhere behind our backs," Charles Wright supposes in "Meditation on Form and Measure." That's just one line from one poem in this fine collection, but it goes a long way toward capturing the flavor of the project. These poems are investigations into the Big Truths, but they're carried out with a subtle sense of mischief as well as reverence. Poetry refers to the "sheer wisdom" in Wright's work, and Helen Vendler writes that he "never ceases to astonish."Read More

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  • Product Description

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

    Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longingâ??lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else."

  • 0374525366
  • 9780374525361
  • 30 April 1998
  • Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
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