Beforelife

Name: Beforelife
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ISBN: 9780375709432

ISBN-10: 0375709436

ISBN-13: 9780375709432

Edition: 2001

Authors: Franz Wright

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In this stunning collection, Franz Wright chronicles the journey back from a place of isolation and wordlessness. After a period when it seemed certain he would never write poetry again, he speaks with bracing clarity about the twilit world that lies between madness and sanity, addiction and recovery. Wright negotiates the precarious transition from illness to health in a state of skeptical rapture, discovering along the way the exhilaration of love--both divine and human--and finding that even the most battered consciousness can be good company. Whether he is writing about his regret for the abortion of a child, describing the mechanics of slander ("I can just hear them on the telephone…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.27" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.330

Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.



Empty Cathedral


Prescription


Translation


November 14


Memoir


Written with a Baseball Bat-Sized Pencil


Not Now


The Dead Dads


The Midnight Snack


I'm Sorry


The Ascent of Midnight


Body Bag


The Beforelife


Thanks Prayer at the Cove


Accepting an Award


Address Search


Based on a Prayer of Rabi'a al-Adawiyya


First Encounter/The City


The Neighbor


The Wedding


Entry & Prayer


The Poem Said


New Page


Doing a Line of Olga Broumas


Communion


After Apollinaire


I for One


Description of Her Eyes


Tibetans Raped by Chinese Robots


From a Discarded Image


Self-Portrait at 40


Scrolling Marquee


Bathtub Improv


Resurrection: Elegy


Simultaneous Sentences


Goodbye


Slander


Aesthetic


When You See Fame Coming Run


The Speaker


Church


Commercial for Absence


Thinking of France


The Way We Look to Them


The Miracle


Request


Homage


To a Blossoming Nut Case


Learning a Language


Fine Print


Primogeniture


Moving


Planting


PC Lullaby


Dying Thought Near the Summit


Empty Stage


Clarification


Nothingsville, MN