Wheeling Motel: Poems by Franz Wright (English) Paperback Book

Wheeling Motel by Franz Wright

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Description In poems that "unfold into miracles of uncontainable passion" ("Pittsburgh Post- Gazette), "Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright gives us a frank and haunting book about reconciliation: with the demons of the past and the complexities of the present.

Publisher Description

Now in paperback, a haunting work of reconciliation with the demons of the past and a frank eye on the present by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright.In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.From his earliest years, he writes in "Will," he had "the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by a rage to prove them wrong / . . . and that I too was worthy of love." This rage comes coupled with the poet's own brand of love, what he calls "one / strange alone / heart's wish / to help all / hearts." Poetry is indeed Wright's help, and he delivers it to us with a wry sense of the daily in America- in his wonderfully local relationship to God (whom he encounters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows of Walden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of the title poem, on the banks of the great Ohio River, where "Tammy Wynette's on the marquee" and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, "examining the tear on a dead face."Here, in Wheeling Motel, Wright's poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, and with his own combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy.

Author Biography

Franz Wright's recent works include Earlier Poems, God's Silence, and The Beforelife (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). In 2004 his Walking to Martha's Vineyard received the Pulitzer Prize. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, among other honors. He currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.

Details ISBN 0375711473 ISBN-13 9780375711473 Title Wheeling Motel Author Franz Wright Format Paperback Year 2011 Pages 112 Publisher Random House USA Inc GE_Item_ID:37142012; About Us

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