Stride are pleased to announce the publication of ZONE JOURNALS by CHARLES
WRIGHT
'Here is the poet in his maturity, full-throated, searching for and
everywhere finding ways to extend his subjects and develop his themes
There is no poet of his generation whose career has unfolded with such
genuine authority as Charles Wright, or whom I read with more astonishment
and gratitude.'
Poetry
Charles Wright was born in Tennessee in 1935, and was educated at Davidson
College, The University of Iowa and the University of Rome. From 1957-61 he
was in the Army Intelligence Service, stationed mostly in Verona, and in
1963 he returned to Italy for two years as a Fulbright student to study in
Rome, translating the poems of Eugenio Montale and Cesare Pavese. He was a
member of the English Department of the University of California, Irvine
from 1966 -1983, and a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Padua during
1968 and '69. Since 1983 he has been a Professor of English at the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Charles Wright's most recent collection of poems is Chickamauga, which was
preceded by The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, from
which the Zone Journals in this volume are taken. Country Music: Selected
Early Poems, drawn from his work published in the 1970s, won the 1983
National Book Award in Poetry. His translation of Eugenio Montale's The
Storm and Other Things was awarded the 1979 PEN Translation Prize. The
author's many other honours and awards include the Award of Merit Medal
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1992, and the Ruth Lilley
Poetry Prize in 1993. In 1995 he was elected a Member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters.
Zone Journals is the first book publication of this important author's work
in Britain. In these expansive, relaxed and emotionally open poems, Wright
explores where the past and present meet in a conversational form that uses
lines to new and skilled effect. His journals come from California, Cumbria
and London, Virginia and Italy, and effortlessly record the poet's
responses to the world he physically and mentally traverses, capturing
moments of contemplation, wonder and desire.
'In his zones of dislocation - between the Christian and the biological,
between Europe and America, and between the allegorical and the visible -
Wright finds a scene of writing unique to himself and to his historical
moment, and phrases it over and over in his musical and grieving
half-lines, themselves the very rhythm of spacious contemplative musing.'
The New Republic
Zone Journals is available for £7.95 post free from
STRIDE, 11 SYLVAN ROAD, EXETER, DEVON EX4 6EW
[cheques payable to 'Stride' please; book only available to European
addresses due to copyright]
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