{"product_id":"wheeling-motel-poems-paperback","title":"Wheeling Motel: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFranz Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom his earliest years, he writes in \"Will,\" he had \"the gift of impermanence \/ so I would be ready, \/ accompanied \/ by a rage to prove them wrong \/ . . . and that I too was worthy of love.\" This rage comes coupled with the poet's own brand of love, what he calls \"one \/ strange alone \/ heart's wish \/ to help all \/ hearts.\" Poetry is indeed Wright'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 \"Tammy Wynette's on the marquee\" and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, \"examining the tear on a dead face.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eWheeling Motel, \u003c\/i\u003e Wright's poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, and with his own combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Wright's recent works include \u003ci\u003eEarlier Poems, God's Silence, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Beforelife \u003c\/i\u003e (a finalist for the Pulitzer\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePrize). In 2004 his \u003ci\u003eWalking to Martha's Vineyard \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePulitzer Prize. He has been the recipient of two National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEndowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWhiting Fellowship, and the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eamong other honors. He currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewith his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOehlkers Wright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.36 x 5.95 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984102424877,"sku":"9780375711473","price":20.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/eIn3NWYBZg9780375711473.webp?v=1776081968","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/wheeling-motel-poems-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}