OBLIVION BANJO

Over the course of his work?more than twenty books in total?Charles Wright has built one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection sp anning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wrights poetry: language, landscape, and the idea of God. No matt er the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationshi p between the ...[Read more]