A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright

by James Wright and Anne Wright

Book Overview

The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words. "There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas, very precisely--if one is lucky in one's thoughts," wrote James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, in a letter to a friend. A Wild Perfection is a compelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374185069
• ISBN13: 9780374185060
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 633 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"