{"product_id":"the-poet-the-lion-talking-c-d-wright-9781556594854","title":"The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire \u0026 All","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Wright shrinks back from nothing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"C.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion to her astonishing collection of prose \u003ci\u003eCooling Time\u003c\/i\u003e, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e seeing, and calls it \"the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine.\" Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003epoetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"In a Word\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with your mouth open, and an Egyptian one-eye was an egg, sunny side up, and a nation sack was a flannel amulet, worn only by women, to be touched only by women, especially around Memphis. Red sacks for love and green for money...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent volume, \u003ci\u003eOne With Others\u003c\/i\u003e, was a National Book Award finalist. Among her many honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. D. Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556594852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/16\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2016 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/14\/2016 pg. 26\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C. D. Wright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987880968447,"sku":"9781556594854","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_035fc3d7-1192-4395-8437-c4118f2deb70.jpg?v=1683291404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-poet-the-lion-talking-c-d-wright-9781556594854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}