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Franz Wright (1953–2015)

Författare till Walking to Martha's Vineyard

21+ verk 686 medlemmar 9 recensioner 4 favoritmärkta

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Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 - May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. His collection of poems entitled, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, won him visa mer a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. In 1996, Wright won the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Wright died of cancer at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May 2015. Deborah Garrison, his longtime editor at Knopf, told the Los Angeles Times: "Franz wrote fearlessly about mental illness, addiction and loneliness as well as about faith and the unending beauty of his world, no matter how broken; he never wrote a line that wasn't fiercely important to him, musical, as witty as it was deadly serious." (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Franz Wright

Walking to Martha's Vineyard (2003) 233 exemplar
God's Silence (2006) 136 exemplar
The Beforelife (2001) 90 exemplar
Wheeling Motel (2009) 44 exemplar
Earlier Poems (2007) 44 exemplar
Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (1998) 36 exemplar
Kindertotenwald: Prose Poems (2011) 32 exemplar
F: Poems (2013) 24 exemplar
Entry in an Unknown Hand (1989) 12 exemplar
Rorschach Test (1995) 5 exemplar
The Earth without You: Poems (1980) 4 exemplar
Going North in Winter (1986) 3 exemplar
THE WRITING (2015) 2 exemplar

Associerade verk

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 831 exemplar
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 362 exemplar
The Art of Losing (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 198 exemplar
The Best American Poetry 2006 (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 190 exemplar
The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 135 exemplar
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 131 exemplar
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 102 exemplar
The Best American Poetry 2012 (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 83 exemplar
St. Peter's B-list: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Buson: Haiku (2011) — Översättare — 2 exemplar
The New Yorker, Dec. 14, 2009 — Poem — 1 exemplar

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And how much courage it requires to get up in the
morning and dress yourself. Nobody congratulates
you!
 
Flaggad
woolgathering | Apr 4, 2017 |
Franz Wright's poems are a case study in existential despair and gnawing bitterness. At their best they recall the dreaded and ethereal moods of Rilke, brooding images set beside a well placed expletive or a defeated admission. Sometimes he ends a poem on an abstraction that dampens the effect of more powerful lines and moments that precede it, but these are not numerous enough to really mar the work as a whole. There are some middling pieces here, but since the book contains Wright's first four collections, that's forgivable. Most are good poems, and almost twenty of them are absolutely brilliant. If you enjoy the early work of Frank Bidart, the more cynical bits of Philip Levine, or if I may the songs of Elliott Smith, you will find something resonant in these earlier collections by Franz Wright.… (mer)
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poetontheone | Nov 3, 2015 |
Prefer the Beforelife to this.
 
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palaverofbirds | 1 annan recension | Mar 29, 2013 |
Verbal Visions: This is a beautiful volume.
½
 
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tobiejonzarelli | 2 andra recensioner | Apr 6, 2009 |

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Verk
21
Även av
11
Medlemmar
686
Popularitet
#36,875
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
9
ISBN
36
Favoritmärkt
4

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