Title: James Wright : the poetry of a grown man : constancy and transition in the work of James Wright /
Authors: Stein, Kevin, 1954-
Publisher: Ohio University Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Wright, James, Criticism and interpretation.; Wright, James, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: In this first comprehensive scholarly introduction to Wright?s work, Stein traces the unified growth of Wright?s poetry, asserting that while stylistic changes are often more apparent than actual, Wright does undergo a continuing personal and aesthetic development throughout his career. Stein examines the entire body of Wright?s poetry, including such previously unpublished materials as the collection Amenities of Stone.
Contents: The poetics of polarization and the work of James Wright -- A poetics of containment: diction, from, and religious theme in The Green Wall and Saint Judas -- A redefinition of the poetic self: Amenities of Stone -- A poetics of vulnerability: The Branch Will Not Break -- The Jenny poems: Amenities of Stone, Shall We Gather at the River, "New Poems," and Two Citizens -- A form sufficiently formless: the rhetoric of Wright's prose poems -- "The poetry of a grown man"; affirmation and integration in To a Blossoming Pear Tree and This Journey.