Chickamauga (Magill’s Literary Annual 1996)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Wright
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Memory, Nature, Literature, Poetry or poets, Creative process, Time
Chickamauga is an impressive collection of poems. Charles Wright divides the book into six distinct sections of lyric poems, although the sections are linked by common themes. Inventive metaphors and precise imagery as well as complexity of thought and engaging voice make this collection a most appealing and significant achievement in late twentieth century poetry. Wright is clearly a poet at the top of his form.
The first section is called “Aftermath,” and nearly all the poems play off the poems of other writers, such as T. S. Eliot and Li Po. The first poem,...
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