Charles Wright

A Short History of the Shadow: Poems Charles Wright Reprint edition

Luminous new poems from one who ?has long been a poet of gorgeous description? ?William Logan, The New Criterion

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.
?from ?Body and Soul II?

This is Charles Wright?s first collection of verse since the gathering, in Negative Blue, of his ?Appalachian Book of the Dead,? a trilogy of trilogies hailed ?among the great long poems of the century? (James Longenbach, Boston Review). 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.