God's Silence

Name: God's Silence
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ISBN: 9780375710810

ISBN-10: 0375710817

ISBN-13: 9780375710810

Edition: N/A

Authors: Franz Wright

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In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Walking to Martha's Vineyard," Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens "God's Silence" with "East Boston, 1996," a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility. He shares his private rules for bus riding ("No eye contact: the eyes of the terrified / terrify"), and recalls, among other experiences, his first encounter with a shotgun, as an eight-year-old boy ("In a clearing in the cornstalks . . . it was suggested / that I fire / on that muttering family of crows"). Throughout this volume, Wright…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.88" wide x 8.34" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Franz Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.