num_pages: 85
description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else."
language: English
title: Black Zodiac
titlecomplete: Black Zodiac
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Poetry, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 892
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Library of Virginia Literary Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux