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Title:Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
Author:C.D. Wright
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 240 pages
Published:September 1st 2003 by Copper Canyon Press (first published 2002)
Categories:Poetry. Contemporary

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Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright—with her Southern accent and cinematic eye—couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning."

from "Our Dust"

You didn’t know my weariness, error, incapacity,
I was the poet
of shadow work and towns with quarter-inch
phone books, of failed
roadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and
sharpening shops,
jobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline
factory on the penitentiary road.
"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."—The New Yorker

"Wright shrinks back from nothing."—Voice Literary Supplement

"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire."—American Letters

C.D. Wright has published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.

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Original Title: Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
ISBN: 1556591942 (ISBN13: 9781556591945)
Edition Language: English

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Radios are turned up to beat thunder,Translations of the gospelBack into tongues.Wright is singular among poets for being able to capture the sadness, creepiness, and beauty of the South: its music, its color, its fierce feminism. This doesnt, of course, mean she should be pigeonholed as a Southern poet;" e.g., in her early, modernist verse, she shows such disparate interests as Wittgenstein, Sven Nykvist, and William L. Shirer. Her later experiments conclude, in this collection, with excerpts

I fear that I started this collection with overblown hopes. It was good and I enjoyed it. However, I fear I may have to compare C.D. Wright to Pearl Jam; a large portion of her work did not resonate with me, but when it did, it vibrated my bones.Her rural yet eloquent approach to language was rewarding, and she handled uncomfortable aspects of humanity with skill.Some of her stuff was too experimental for me, and in some poems she seemed to punctuate the poem to make it intentionally unreadable.

My other favorite poet...

Pretty great collection - recommend it as a good headway into C.D. Wright

I've taken a daily drink from this book of selected for the last couple of months, just before sitting at the writing desk. ("Something about writing by the kingly light" (from CDW's "Voice of the Ridge")I remain hungry for her work -- it's atmospheric, erotic, unflinching, storied. She's a guru for me. She is all texture.from "Ozark Odes":"I can still see Cuddihy's sisterstrimming the red tufts under one another's arms."from the "Girlfriend Poems":"Awake ye and come to our houseCome running fly

"her warmth, her terrible warmth flooded the tone." Southern, white woman who knows whiteness is a race. Voice. Adult sex and love stories. Mysterious. "An unsmiling blond." That's good enough for me.

Though this selected compiles complete versions of a few of her books, the excisions made to Deepstep Come Shining are problematic. . . i think most people that are introduced to Deepstep via this collection won't be encouraged to read the complete text. . . and it should be read in its entirety as it's fabulous!