num_pages: 181
description: A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make a reckoning with his present, and to conjure the terms by which we might face the future," writes David St. John in the forward. These poems, powerful and moving in their own right, lend richness and insight to Wright's recently collected later works. "In Country Music we see the same explosive imagery, the same dismantled and concentric (or parallel) narratives, the same resolutely spiritual concerns that have become so familiar to us in Wright's more recent poetry," writes St. John.
language: English
title: Country Music: Selected Early Poems
titlecomplete: Country Music: Selected Early Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 132
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Wesleyan University Press