Negative Blue Selected Later Poems

The culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award "Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight"On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket, "Silk handkerchief limp with dew, " sleeves in a slow dance with the wind."And love will kill us--"Love, and the winds from under the earth" that grind us to grain-out.--from "Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn" When Charles Wright published "Appalachia in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the "Boston Review, "Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century." The first two of those trilogies were collected in "Country Music (1982) and "The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy ("Chickamauga [1995], "Black Zodiac [1997], and "Appalachia [1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.

Charles Wright received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983 for Country Music, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1995 for Chickamauga, and the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 for Black Zodiac.

Chickamauga

Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn

3

(1)

Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year

4

(2)

Under the Nine Trees in January

6

(1)

After Reading Wang Wei, I Go Outside to the Full Moon

7

(1)

Easter 1989

8

(2)

Reading Rorty and Paul Celan One Morning in Early June

10

(2)

After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard

12

(1)

Thinking of David Summers at the Beginning of Winter

13

(1)

Cicada

14

(2)

Tennessee Line

16

(2)

Looking Outside the Cabin Window, I Remember a Line by Li Po

18

(1)

Mid-winter Snowfall in the Piazza Dante

19

(2)

Sprung Narratives

21

(9)

Broken English

30

(1)

Maple on the Hill

31

(2)

Chickamauga

33

(1)

Still Life on a Matchbox Lid

34

(1)

Blaise Pascal Lip-syncs the Void

35

(1)

Winter-Worship

36

(1)

The Silent Generation

37

(1)

An Ordinary Afternoon in Charlottesville

38

(1)

Mondo Angelico

39

(1)

Mondo Henbane

40

(1)

Miles Davis and Elizabeth Bishop Fake the Break

41

(1)

Peccatology

42

(1)

East of the Blue Ridge, Our Tombs Are in the Dove's Throat

43

(1)

``Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it''

44

(1)

As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light

45

(1)

Absence Inside an Absence

46

(1)

Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn

47

(1)

With Simic and Marinetti at the Giubbe Rosse

48

(1)

To the Egyptian Mummy in the Etruscan Museum at Cortona

49

(2)

With Eddie and Nancy in Arezzo at the Caffe Grande

51

(1)

There Is No Shelter

52

(1)

Watching the Equinox Arrive in Charlottesville, September 1992

53

(3)

Waiting for Tu Fu

56

(3)

Paesaggio Notturno

59

(1)

Still Life with Stick and Word

60

(1)

Summer Storm

61

(1)

Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night

62

(1)

Looking Again at What I Looked At for Seventeen Years

63

(1)

Looking Across Laguna Canyon at Dusk, West-by-Northwest

64

(1)

Venexia I

65

(1)

Venexia II

66

(1)

Yard Work

67

(4)

Black Zodiac

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

71

(15)

Envoi

86

(2)

Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho

88

(2)

Meditation on Form and Measure

90

(3)

Poem Almost Wholly in My Own Manner

93

(3)

Meditation on Summer and Shapelessness

96

(3)

The Appalachian Book of the Dead

99

(2)

Umbrian Dreams

101

(1)

October II

102

(1)

Lives of the Saints

103

(5)

Christmas East of the Blue Ridge

108

(1)

Negatives II

109

(1)

Lives of the Artists

110

(5)

Deep Measure

115

(1)

Thinking of Winter at the Beginning of Summer

116

(1)

Jesuit Graves

117

(1)

Meditation on Song and Structure

118

(4)

Sitting at Dusk in the Back Yard After the Mondrian Retrospective

122

(2)

Black Zodiac

124

(4)

China Mail

128

(1)

Disjecta Membra

129

(16)

Appalachia

Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat

145

(1)

Stray Paragraphs in April, Year of the Rat

146

(1)

Basic Dialogue

147

(1)

Star Turn

148

(1)

A Bad Memory Makes You a Metaphysician, a Good One Makes You a Saint

149

(1)

Thinking about the Poet Larry Levis One Afternoon in Late May

150

(1)

In the Kingdom of the Past, the Brown-Eyed Man Is King

151

(1)

Passing the Morning under the Serenissima

152

(1)

Venetian Dog

153

(1)

In the Valley of the Magra

154

(1)

Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song

155

(1)

Ars Poetica II

156

(1)

Cicada Blue

157

(1)

All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends to Repeat Itself

158

(1)

Opus Posthumous

159

(1)

Quotations

160

(2)

The Appalachian Book of the Dead II

162

(1)

Indian Summer II

163

(1)

Autumn's Sidereal, November's a Ball and Chain

164

(1)

The Writing Life

165

(1)

Reply to Wang Wei

166

(1)

Giorgio Morandi and the Talking Eternity Blues

167

(1)

Drone and Ostinato

168

(1)

Ostinato and Drone

169

(1)

``It's Turtles All the Way Down''

170

(1)

Half February

171

(1)

Back Yard Boogie Woogie

172

(1)

The Appalachian Book of the Dead III

173

(1)

Opus Posthumus II

174

(1)

Body Language

175

(1)

``When You're Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It's Eastertime Too''

176

(1)

The Appalachian Book of the Dead IV

177

(1)

Spring Storm

178

(1)

Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening

179

(1)

``The Holy Ghost Asketh for Us with Mourning and Weeping Unspeakable''

180

(1)

The Appalachian Book of the Dead V

181

(1)

Star Turn II

182

(1)

After Reading T'ao Ch'ing, I Wander Untethered Through the Short Grass

183

(1)

Remembering Spello, Sitting Outside in Prampolini's Garden

184

(2)

After Rereading Robert Graves, I Go Outside to Get My Head Together

186

(1)

American Twilight

187

(1)

The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI

188

(1)

Landscape as Metaphor, Landscape as Fate and a Happy Life

189

(1)

Opus Posthumus III

190

(3)

North American Bear

Step-children of Paradise

193

(1)

Freezing Rain

194

(1)

Thinking about the Night Sky, I Remember a Poem by Tu Fu

195

(1)

North American Bear

196

(3)

If You Talk the Talk, You Better Walk the Walk

199

(1)

St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear

200

(1)

Sky Diving

201

(2)

Notes

203

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