Further Reading
- Dougherty, Douglas C., James Wright, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987, 425p. (A comprehensive study of Wright's work with a useful biographical essay, chronology, and extensive bibliography.)
- Elkins, Andrew, The Poetry of James Wright, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991, 273p. (A book-length study of Wright's entire body of work that emphasizes the continuity and development of themes and concerns, with an extensive bibliography of works about the poet.)
- Henricksen, Bruce, "Poetry Must Think: An Interview with James Wright," New Orleans Review 6 (1979): 201-07. (Interviews Wright, who discusses poetic structure and the poet's obligation to uphold ethical as well as aesthetic standards.)
- Howard, Richard, "James Wright: ‘The Body Wakes to Burial,’" in Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950, pp. 575-86. (Discusses Wright's sense of landscape and his handling of language and imagery in his poems.)
- Janssens, G. A. M., "The Present State of American Poetry: Robert Bly and James Wright," English Studies: A Journal of English Letters and Philology 51, No. 2 (April, 1970): 112-37. (Analyzing the poetry of Wright and Robert Bly, discusses the conflict engendered in American poetry between the intellectual, ironic poetry favored by the New Critics and the poetry of imagery and emotion wrought by poets speaking not through personae or in complex forms, but in a colloquial style which voices their own feelings, thoughts, and recognitions.)
- Stein, Kevin, James Wright, The Poetry of a Grown Man: Constancy and Transition in the Work of James Wright, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1989, 222p. (An examination of Wright's corpus that focuses on the formal changes in Wright's poetry and their significance for his poetry.)
- Stitt, Peter and Frank Gratziano, eds., James Wright: The Heart of Light, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, 425p. (Extensive collection of essays devoted to Wright's work.)
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