num_pages: 150
description: A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing and calls it the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine. Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry is poetry.From In a Word:I love the nouns of a time in a place where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with your mouth open and an Egyptian one-eye was an egg sunny side up and a nation sack was a flannel amulet worn only by women to be touched only by women especially around Memphis. Red sacks for love and green for moneyC.D. Wright's most recent volume One With Others was a National Book Award finalist. Among her many honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence Rhode Island.
language: English
title: The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All
publisher: Copper Canyon Press