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God's Silence

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God's Silence

In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Marthaâ€™s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens Godâ€™s Silence with â€œEast Boston, 1996,â€ a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility. He shares his private rules for bus riding (â€œNo eye contact: the eyes of the terrified / terrifyâ€), and recalls, among other experiences, his first encounter with a shotgun, as an eight-year-old boy (â€œIn a clearing in the cornstalks . . . it was suggested / that I fire / on that muttering family of crowsâ€). Throughout this volume, Wright continues his penetrating study of his own and our collective soul. He reaches a new level of acceptance as he intones the paradox â€œI have heard Godâ€™s silence like the sun,â€ and marvels at our presumptions:

We speak of Heaven who have not yet accomplished
even this, the holiness of things
precisely as they are, and never will!

Though Wright often seeks forgiveness in these poems, his black wit and self-deprecation are reliably present, and he delights in reminding us that â€œliterature will lose, sunlight will win, donâ€™t worry.â€
But in this book, literature wins as well. Godâ€™s Silence is a deeply felt celebration of what poetry (and its silences) can do for us.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780375710810
Color	White
IsAdultProduct
Height	8.34644
Length	5.86613
Weight	0.49824471212
Width	0.43307
ReleaseDate	2008-03-25
NumberOfItems	1

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