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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cP\u003eNow in paperback, \u003cI\u003eSteal Away \u003c/I\u003epresents C.D. Wright\u0026rsquo;s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new \"retablos\" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright\u0026mdash;with her Southern accent and cinematic eye\u0026mdash;couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that \"offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.\"\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\u003cB\u003efrom \"Our Dust\"\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003eYou didn\u0026rsquo;t know my weariness, error, incapacity,\u003cbr\u003eI was the poet\u003cbr\u003eof shadow work and towns with quarter-inch\u003cbr\u003ephone books, of failed\u003cbr\u003eroadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and\u003cbr\u003esharpening shops,\u003cbr\u003ejobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline\u003cbr\u003efactory on the penitentiary road.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.\"\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\"Wright shrinks back from nothing.\"\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire.\"\u0026mdash;\u003cI\u003eAmerican Letters\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\u003cB\u003eC.D. Wright \u003c/B\u003ehas published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.\u003c/P\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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