num_pages: 96
description: Robert Wrigley writes about the richness at the margins, the way a horrible event can also contain a certain beauty. In "Majestic," he describes the spectacle of a "white Lincoln's arc/ from the crown of the downriver road/ and the splash it bellied in the water." This attention to the complexity of the moment as experienced also fuels "About Language," in which a child innocently curses as geese fly gracefully overhead. Excellent work.
language: English
title: In the Bank of Beautiful Sins: Poems
titlecomplete: In the Bank of Beautiful Sins: Poems (Poets, Penguin)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 40
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award
publisher: Penguin Books