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

God's Silence
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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.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-03-21
EANs 9781400043514

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-03-21
EANs	9781400043514

God's Silence

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