Black Zodiac: Poems
"Black Zodiacconcentrates on Charles Wright's considerable poetic endowment into a new poignance that has to be termed religious. Some of the poems achieve an authentic gnosis in a rapt mode of negative transcendence."--Harold Bloom"Black Zodiacoccupies the position in Wright's career thatThe Auroras of Autumnholds in Wallace Stevens's: Having long since mastered his characteristic voice, the poet has passed through the terrifying moment when mastery threatens to become mannerism, and he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh."--James Longenbach,The Nation"Combines an impeccable musical and prosaic sense with the kind of humility possessed by the masters."--Carol Muske,The New York Times Book Review