Before Wright’s unexpected death in 2016, she was deeply engaged in years of ambling research to better know this tree-she visited hundreds of beech trees, interviewed arborists, and delved into the etymology, folk lore, and American history of the species. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature.” -Dave EggersĬasting Deep Shade is a passionate, poetic exploration of humanity’s shared history with the beech tree. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.” -The New York Times
a saxophone playing and a poignant voice making sense."-Carolyn Forché "This is poetry as white phosphorus, written with merciless love and depthless anger.how can we react to a poetry this alive with invention and purpose but with joy?"-Judges' Citation, Griffin Poetry Prize (2009) "Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets."-Publishers Weekly "No single description adequately captures Wright's work she is an experimental writer, a Southern writer and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvents herself with each new volume."-MacArthur Foundation (2004) Reseña del editor: Wright's poetry is river gold."-Michael Ondaatje "CD Wright's is a poetry of Southern mountain vision brought to the streets in a language of brilliant synaesthesia, colloquial warmth and laconic wit. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature."-Dave Eggers "For me C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."-Joel Brouwer, The New York Times "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."-The New Yorker "C.D.
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