Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet whose awards include the National Book Award (19830 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1998) for Black Zodiac.

Life

Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, and attended Davidson College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Wright has been widely published, winning the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1998 for Black Zodiac. Other works include Chickamauga, Buffalo Yoga, Negative Blue, Appalachia, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, Zone Journals and Hard Freight. Wright's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.

Wright has published two works of criticism, Halflife and Quarter Notes. His translation of Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Poems won him the PEN Translation Prize in 1979. In 1993, he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for his lifetime achievement. From 1966 to 1983, he taught at the University of California, Irvine. He is now a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Bibliography

• Outtakes Sarabande, 2010.
• Sestets Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009.
• Littlefoot Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.[1]
• Scar Tissue Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. (winner of the 2007 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
• The Wrong End of the Rainbow Sarabande, 2005.
• Buffalo Yoga Farrar, Straux & Giroux, 2004.
• A Short History of the Shadow Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.
• Negative Blue Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
• North American Bear Sutton Hoo, 1999.
• Appalachia Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998.
• Black Zodiac Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997.
• Chickamauga Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995.
• Quarter Notes (improvisations and interviews) U of Michigan Press, 1995.
• The World of the Ten Thousand Things. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.
• Xionia Windhover Press, 1990.
• Zone Journals Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988.
• Halflife (improvisations and interviews) U of Michigan Press, 1988.
• The Other Side of the River. Random House 1984.
• Orphic Songs. Dino Campana (translations) Field Editions, 1984.
• Country Music/Selected Early Poems Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
• The Southern Cross Random House, 1981.
• The Storm and Other Things Eugenio Montale (translations) Field Editions, 1978.
• China Trace Wesleyan University Press, 1977.
• Bloodlines Wesleyan University Press, 1975.
• Hard Freight Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
• The Grave of the Right Hand Wesleyan University Press, 1970.

External links

• Profile at Poetry Foundation
• Profile at Poets.org
• Charles Wright at Macmillan publishing
• Wright profile and poems at the Blackbird journal. Spring 2004. Wright reading 6 November 2007. Volume 7, No. 2 (Fall 2008) (Audio 30 mins)
• J. D. McClatchy (Winter II 1989). "Charles Wright, The Art of Poetry No. 41". The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2369/the-art-of-poetry-no-41-charles-wright. 
• "Charles Wright Reads Selected Sestets and Other Poems" 10 December 2009. The New York Review of Books. (Audio)
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography and video
• "Charles Wright: An Interview" by Daniel Cross Turner. storySouth Journal (Summer 2005)

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Name	Wright, Charles
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Short description	Poet
Date of birth	August 25, 1935
Place of birth	Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, United States
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