![]() He has also translated two volumes of poetry, by Eugenio Montale and Dino Campana-and when I visited him he was putting together a collection of prose writings. ![]() During the past two decades he has written eight books of poems: The Grave of the Right Hand (1970), Hard Freight (1973), Bloodlines (1975), China Trace(1977), The Southern Cross (1981), Country Music: Selected Early Poems (1983 winner of that year’s American Book Award in Poetry), The Other Side of the River (1984), and Zone Journals (1988). Wright’s work stands out among his generation of poets for the austere luxuriance of its textures, its mingling of domestic subjects and foreign methods, and its bold and unpretentious ambition. And a few years ago, after a long spell of teaching at the University of California at Irvine, he returned to the South, as poet in residence at the University of Virginia. Born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, in 1935, he grew up in the South and went to college there. In person, though, he gives a quite different impression-trim, elegant even in blue jeans, generous, with a Southerner’s softspoken courtliness. Photograph by Dan Addison.įrom his dustjacket photographs, you might expect Charles Wright to be a dour man. McClatchy Issue 113, Winter II 1989Ĭharles Wright.
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