A Short History of the Shadow (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Wright
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Memory, Dogs, Twentieth century, Nature, Twenty-first century, Death or dying, Idealism, Time, Old age or elderly people, Mortality
In his later sixties Charles Wright surveys his worlds, outer and inner, with courage and philosophical wit. Having earned many of his prizes—the National Book Award (1983), the Ruth Lilly Prize (1993), the Pulitzer Prize (1998)—relatively late in his career, he embodies the figure of poet as sage. However, the wisdom comes naturally, almost trippingly, to a poet essentially Romantic. There is a preserved youthfulness and idealism in his sensibility which rises to the surface of his darkest meditations. In the midst of this collection, in the long poem “Night Rider,” he exclaims...
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