Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems

Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems: New and Selected Poems

by C . D . Wright (Author)

Synopsis

One of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets - Publishers Weekly . C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she is an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvents herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. This first UK edition of her work presents a wide range of her lyrics, narratives, prose poems and odes. Based on Steal Away (2003), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, its selection has been expanded to include more later work as well as new poems not yet published in book form in the US, including a major extended poem, Rising, Falling, Hovering.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 303
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published: 10 Apr 2007

ISBN 10: 1852247622
ISBN 13: 9781852247621

Media Reviews
'Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence' - The New Yorker 'One of the most complex, fascinating and ultimately rewarding American poets writing today... For her, it seems a natural step from Southern down-home dialect (at least as her writer's ear perceived it) to the experiments with nonsyntactical language that put her in the forefront of experimental poetry. Not only do her poems explore uncharted ground in both subject and form, each new volume seems to take new risks' - Library Journal
Author Bio
C.D. Wright has published eleven volumes of poetry, including two book-length poems, Deepstep Come Shining (1998) and Just Whistle (1993) as well as Cooling Time (2005), a book comprised of poetry, memoir and essay. Her many honours include a Lannan Literary Award and a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of English at Brown University, and has edited Lost Roads Publishers for the past 30 years with her husband, poet Forrest Gander. She has collaborated on many projects with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (2003). She was State Poet of Rhode Island from 1995 to 1999. Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), her first UK edition, is expanded from Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2003).