{"product_id":"steal-away-selected-and-new-poems-9781556591945","title":"Steal Away: Selected and New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, \u003ci\u003eSteal Away \u003c\/i\u003epresents 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom \"Our Dust\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity, \u003cbr\u003eI was the poet\u003cbr\u003eof shadow work and towns with quarter-inch\u003cbr\u003ephone books, of failed\u003cbr\u003eroadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and\u003cbr\u003esharpening shops, \u003cbr\u003ejobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline\u003cbr\u003efactory on the penitentiary road.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wright shrinks back from nothing.\"--\u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright \u003c\/b\u003ehas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC.D. Wright, a Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of eleven books of poetry, as well as several collaborative works with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. She has earned fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations, and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. She lives in Rhode Island.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524809625874,"sku":"9781556591945","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db34a8ee-5780-4e89-b325-c99547b15997.jpg?v=1731193632","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/steal-away-selected-and-new-poems-9781556591945","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}