Wright, Charles (Vol. 6) - Wright, Charles 1935–
Wright, Charles 1935–
Wright is a prize-winning American poet. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 29-32.)
Charles Wright's second book, Hard Freight …, begins with a moving "Homage to Ezra Pound,"… Hard Freight is less Poundian, less hard-edged, than his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand (1970). There are in both books many poems about other writers (Rimbaud, Rolfe, Kafka, Wilde in the present book) but, except for the Pound poem, I prefer his poems that catch his fascination with the "way the light falls/Like a cheap dress on a wrought chair," as in "Congenital."… These are often hard poems to get into, but Wright's strangely lit and colored landscapes create a cumulative effect, disturbing and hypnotic. (p. 26)
...Peter Meinke, in The New Republic (reprinted by permission of The New Republic; © 1973 by The New Republic, Inc.), November 24, 1973.
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