Axe in Blossom
Last Poems & Fragments
$44.89
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s final written work—poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for.
“His hands strip poetry to its nub.” — Los Angeles Times
“Reading Wright is like walking through a plate-glass window on purpose… . The shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking.” — Chicago Tribune
“My death is in the second drawer,” write…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307962058 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307962059 |
| Author: | Franz Wright |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 341g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 149mm |
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“I’ve never been the beneficiary of a burning bush or an angel’s clarion trumpet, but this is the magic I have known: a titan like Franz Wright writing—as if directly to me, today—from his vantage on the other, longer side of eternity. No one living could make these sounds, crack these jokes, no one living could see so clearly so far out ahead. It’s pulverizing. It’s what language is for. I hold Axe in Blossom like the skull of a saint.” —Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
“Unbearably beautiful and cohesive… . We are in the presence of a wildly unmatchable poet… . ‘Theology’ opens, ‘There must be someone else / who wakes disturbed, alone; / too bad we can’t talk on our tiny phone.’ These poems are that tiny phone, connecting us to Wright and all that his poems remind us we can endure.” —Literary Hub
About The Author
Franz Wright
FRANZ WRIGHT’s many poetry collections include F, God’s Silence, and Wheeling Motel. His collection Walking to Martha’s Vineyard was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. He was also the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting Fellowship, among other honors. Wright died in 2015.
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