{"product_id":"9781619321540","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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151698084080,"sku":"9781619321540","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619321540","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}