{"product_id":"oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright","title":"Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright","description":"The selected works of one of our finest American poets\n\nThe thread that dangles us\nbetween a dark and a darker dark,\nIs luminous, sure, but smooth sided.\nDon’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there.\nDon’t touch it, in fact, anywhere―\nLet it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.\n―from “Scar Tissue”\n\nOver the course of his work―more than twenty books in total―Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright’s poetry: “language, landscape, and the idea of God.” No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality.\n\nThe recipient of almost every honor in poetry―the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few―and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career―for devout fans and newcomers alike.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374251010\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374251010.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Wright, Charles\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41721475301434,"sku":"DBV.0374251010.VG","price":29.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374251010-0.jpg?v=1791169037","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}