Zone Journals

By Charles Wright

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374521123
• ISBN13: 9780374521127
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended.

Mr. Wright is a poet of varied and considerable strengths, though his recent work has a tendency to sprawl, both thematically and imagistically. Perhaps this is a necessary component of his style, but it has the unfortunate effect of distracting the reader from the natural depth of his lines. I had the opportunity to publish some of his work as editor of the Oxford Quarterly last year, and I regret that I missed his reading with Mark Strand at KGB (NYC) last night. Unlike many a book of contemporary poetry, I would recommend this book for all readers on the grounds that it is, despite immediate appearances, a delicately crafted and wholly sincere work. No word is misplaced, and that is one of the highest compliments I can pay to a book of any sort.