Night Field Anecdote
William Wright s work gives me hope for the future of poetry. I recognize in his poems the urgency to get it said, to get it said right, to get it all said, and the understanding that true music is not the addition of pretty sounds to whatever you re saying, but the measure of how well you said it. Wright wants to communicate not the usual self-absorbed ennui, but the spirit of things, the spirit alive in their facts. --Jack Butler, author of Jujitsu for ChristIn William Wright s Night Field Anecdote, the voices of gravity, shadow, and interiority are given rare music to sing: Nearly every poem in the collection invites us to see nature poetry and nature itself in new ways. Once we hear the voices Wright has created to articulate his vision, we will not be able to take the easy way ever again. The voices contain echoes of Lorca and of Cavafy and of Rilke, but the guiding voice is all William Wright s and all of our time. --Darrell Bourque, Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2009-2011