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Wheeling Motel

Poems

Franz Wright

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English
Random House Inc
15 September 2011
Now in paperback, a haunting work of reconciliation with the demons of the past and a frank eye on the present by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright.

In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.

From his earliest years, he writes in ""Will,"" he had ""the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by a rage to prove them wrong / . . . and that I too was worthy of love."" This rage comes coupled with the poet's own brand of love, what he calls ""one / strange alone / heart's wish / to help all / hearts."" Poetry is indeed Wright's help, and he delivers it to us with a wry sense of the daily in America- in his wonderfully local relationship to God (whom he encounters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows of Walden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of the title poem, on the banks of the great Ohio River, where ""Tammy Wynette's on the marquee"" and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, ""examining the tear on a dead face.""

Here, in Wheeling Motel, Wright's poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, and with his own combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy.
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Imprint:   Random House Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 212mm,  Width: 149mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   160g
ISBN:   9780375711473
ISBN 10:   0375711473
Pages:   112
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Franz Wright's recent works include Earlier Poems, God's Silence, and The Beforelife (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). In 2004 his Walking to Martha's Vineyard received the Pulitzer Prize. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, among other honors. He currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.

Reviews for Wheeling Motel: Poems

-These new poems refract the light of the poet's insightful, humorous, and often humble gaze in ways that are surprising and rewarding.- --America-Uningratiating, bumptiously witty . . . and routinely surprising.- --The New York Times Book Review


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