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Wheeling Motel

Wheeling Motel

In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future.

From his earliest years, he writes in â€œWill,â€ he had â€œthe gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by a rage to prove them wrong / . . . and that I too was worthy of love.â€ This rage comes coupled with the poetâ€™s own brand of love, what he calls â€œone / strange alone / heartâ€™s wish / to help all / hearts.â€ Poetry is indeed Wrightâ€™s help, and he delivers it to us with a wry sense of the daily in America: in his wonderfully local relationship to God (whom he encounters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows of Walden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of the title poem, on the banks of the great Ohio River, where â€œTammy Wynetteâ€™s on the marqueeâ€ and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, â€œexamining the tear on a dead face.â€

Here, in Wheeling Motel, Wrightâ€™s poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, and with his own combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2009-09-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307265685

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