Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Poems
$26.19
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2005
Summary
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal. As he watches the “Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window,” he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding “what death … There is only / mine / or yours,- / but the world / will be filled with the living.” In prayerlike poems he invokes the one “who spoke the world / into being” and celebrates a dazzli…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375710018 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375710019 |
| Author: | Franz Wright |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 147mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Franz Wright
Franz Wright was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and Northern California. His most recent works include The Beforelife (which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and Ill Lit- Selected & New Poems. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Prize, among other honors. He works at the Edinburg Center for Mental Health and the Center for Grieving Children and Teenagers and lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his wife, Elizabeth.
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