Short History of the Shadow

Title: Short History of the Shadow
Author: Charles Wright
ISBN: 9780374263027
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2002
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Luminous new poems from the author of ""The Appalachian Book of the Dead""

"Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation."
"Don't just do something, sit there."
"And so I have, so I have, "
"the seasons curling around me like smoke, "
"Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound. "
-"Body and Soul II"

This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the completion of his Appalachian Book of the Dead, the trilogy of trilogies hailed as one "among the great long poems of the century" (James Longenbach, "Boston Review"). Wright speaks in these poems with characteristic charm, restlessness, and wit, writing again and again, "I sit where I always sit," only to reveal himself in a new setting every time. In "A Short History of the Shadow" Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.