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Chickamauga Book
As he juggles his inquiries about language, landscape, memory, and God throughout the six groups of short poems that make up Chickamauga, Wright refuses to reach for the easy conclusion. In this, his poems embody Keats's notion of "negative capability": the ability to consider multiple concepts without "irritably reaching after fact." "We're placed between now and not-now," as he writes in "Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year." Wright's scope is admirably broad, and he endows the familiar with new shadows. In "Sprung Narratives" he considers what he's learned in the 30 years since a trip to Italy, and concludes, "Unlike a disease, whatever I've learned / Is not communicable." Instead of trying to explain with a vocabulary wherein "each word / Is a failure," Wright tells … read more...
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