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  • The Fastest, Cheapest And Safest Way To Have Unlimited Energy Now

    by Charles Wright ...
    We live in an environment fast-paced environment, where almost everything is measured in terms of speed. It appears to becoming even faster.Workers are often asked to work faster, and multitasking is now to be expected. Many people complain of not having enough time to complete all the required tasks, and feeling over worked and rundown.The listless feelings are leading many to lead sedentary ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chickamauga

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Collected Novels of Charles Wright

    The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About

    by Charles Wright ...
    The complete trilogy following the double life of a young black man in mid-twentieth-century New York: "Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesIn this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as "malevolent, bitter, glittering"—a young black intellectual from the South struggles to make ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Negative Blue

    Selected Later Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Negative Blue is the culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.Time will append us like suit coats left out overnightOn a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,Silk handkerchief limp with dew,sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.And love will kill us--Love, and the winds from under the earththat grin... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Country Music

    Selected Early Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Luminous new poems from the author of " The Appalachian Book of the Dead"Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.Don't just do something, sit there.And so I have, so I have,the seasons curling around me like smoke,Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.-"Body and Soul II"This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the ... ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Bye-and-Bye

    Selected Late Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    The acclaimed collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet whose work is "conceived in a manner that never ceased to astonish" (Helen Vendler, The New Republic).Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, former US Poet Laureate Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century" (David Young, Contemporary Poets).Bye ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Oblivion Banjo

    The Poetry of Charles Wright

    by Charles Wright ...
    The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Char... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Zone Journals

    by Charles Wright ...
    Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profound sense of subliminal order."Called one of our best middle-generation poets, Wright offers as his seventh collection a series of meditations ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • How To Be Creative

    by Charles Wright ...
    You deserve success!You can live a rich full and productive life, by following the tracks and traits of creative people.There are observed traits that are common to almost all creative people, and those traits can easily be learned.With the traits of the tracks left by some very creative people, you can follow the tracks, and learn to unleash the very powerful genius of creativity that lies ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Country Music

    Selected Early Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright's grand passions: his desire to reclaim and redeem a personal past, to make ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • The World of the Ten Thousand Things

    Poems 1980–1990

    by Charles Wright ...
    A decade of poetry collections by the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet laureate gathered in one volume."[ The World of the Ten Thousand Things is] a single poetic sequence worthy of comparison with such extended works as "The Bridge" by Hart Crane, "The Far Field" by Theodore Roethke, and "Dream Songs" by John Berryman. . . . [Wright is] a poet of great purity and originality. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD