Deepstep Come Shining (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556590924)

Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporate elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. "In my book," she writes, "poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so."

C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has received numerous awards for her work, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation. She teaches at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America's oddest, best and most appealing poets. Her tenth book consists of a single long poem whose sentences, segments and prose-blocks weave loosely around and about, and grow out of, a road trip through the rural South. Clipped twangs, lyrical 'goblets of magnolialight, ' and recurrent, mysterious, semi-allegorical figures like 'the snakeman' and 'the boneman' share space with place names, lexicographies, exhortations and wacky graffiti ('God is Louise').... cherish Wright's latest 'once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.'"--Publishers Weekly

"For me, C.D. Wright's poetry is river gold. 'Love whatever flows.' Her language is on the page half pulled out of earth and rivers--still holding onto the truth of the elements. I love her voice and pitch and the long snaky arms of her language that is willing to hold everything--human and angry and beautiful."--Michael Ondaatje

"C.D. Wright is entirely her own poet, a true original."--The Gettysburg Review

Author: C. D. Wright
ISBN-10: 155659092X
ISBN-13: 9781556590924
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1998
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.43d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/27/1998 pg. 72
Publishers Weekly 09/28/1998 pg. 96
Booklist 11/15/1998 pg. 561
Booklist 02/15/2001 pg. 1102