{"product_id":"9780374527730","title":"Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime will append us like suit coats left out overnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilk handkerchief limp with dew,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd love will kill us--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove, and the winds from under the earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e that grind us to grain-out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Charles Wright published \u003ci\u003eAppalachia \u003c\/i\u003ein 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first two of those trilogies were collected in \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (\u003ci\u003eChickamauga \u003c\/i\u003e[1995], \u003ci\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c\/i\u003e [1997], and \u003ci\u003eAppalachia \u003c\/i\u003e[1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008355549424,"sku":"9780374527730","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374527730_p0.jpg?v=1763691266","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374527730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}