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Scar Tissue: Poems
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780374530839
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0374530831
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 88
Publication Date: July 24, 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Editorial Review:
In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality—”A thing is not an image”—but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he reminds us that landscape is not his subject matter but his technique: that language was always his subject—language and “the ghost of god.” And in the dolomites, the clouds, stars, wind, and water that populate these poems, “something un-ordinary persists.”Scar Tissue is a groundbreaking work from a poet who “illuminates and exalts in the entire astonishing spectrum of existence” (Booklist).
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Rating: - Explorations in the underlap...
Poetry, they say, can be partly defined as an utterance incapable of being paraphrased. That is true of all Charles Wright's work, insofar as I'm familiar with it, but especially so of Scar Tissue.
This is a work that exists in the inbetween. It is full of things felt, not known; things intuited, not reasoned; of "the endless sky with its endless cargo of cloud parts" (Scar Tissue); and of whole days where "the wind will comb out it's hair through the teeth of the evergreens." and ... Read More
Rating: - Welcome to my backyard. Would you like some zen with that?
Charles Wright is probably one of the best poets around today. His images are strong, his language direct, his allusions trackable. He's also one of the few poets I've read over a period of 15 years or more, so it's with great anticipation that I look forward to his new work. Some of these poems appeared in a chapbook THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RAINBOW, so I felt lucky to have had a headstart on SCAR TISSUE. It's a good read, a good reread, and good for study.
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