Charles Wright and an Examination of his life
Year after year, decade after decade, Charles Wright has had a pencil in hand, a piece of paper in front of him, as he's scribbled some of the most graceful sentences and elegant lines in contemporary poetry. Producing a bounty of poems as durable as a diamond, each with the dazzling light of reflection as if from the cut and polished surface of a diamond's facet. Thankfully, four decades after he came to his senses, as he puts it, with the discovery of his poetic skill, Wright continues this ritual of reporting on the world around him.
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