{"product_id":"understanding-charles-wright-joe-moffett-9781570037788","title":"Understanding Charles Wright","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary roadmap to navigating the \"trilogy of trilogies\" by one of America's most celebrated poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed the U.S. poet laureate in 2014, Charles Wright has received the PEN Translation Prize, the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and numerous other honors. In this first book-length study of Wright's extensive body of work, Joe Moffett offers readers an introduction to the books and themes that have defined the poet's illustrious career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWright's major work centers around a lengthy self-described \"trilogy of trilogies\" project consisting of \u003ci\u003eCountry Music, The World of the Ten Thousand Things, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNegative Blue, \u003c\/i\u003e in which each volume is a collection of poems stemming from a different trio of books. In his study of the trilogy, Moffett finds Wright returning to the distinctive landscape and culture of his native Appalachia in poetic quests for spiritual meaning. Early on, Wright was indoctrinated in the Episcopal Church and later garnered an impressive knowledge of Eastern religion, mysticism, and philosophy; thus the poet is deeply conversant in a wide range of spiritual texts and freely draws from this material in his continuing contemplations on the divine. Moffett views this extended engagement between place and spirituality as key to understanding Wright's vision. Moffett concludes with a survey of Wright's three subsequent volumes of poetry--\u003ci\u003eA Short History of the Shadow, Buffalo Yoga, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Scar Tissue\u003c\/i\u003e--as a continuation of the poetic style and dialogue between Southern landscapes and divine influences that defined the earlier trilogies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Moffett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570037787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570037788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2009 pg. 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2009","brand":"Joe Moffett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453795381503,"sku":"9781570037788","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed322713-2ba3-49c8-a11a-766b5fcd1a4b.jpg?v=1777302352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-charles-wright-joe-moffett-9781570037788","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}