{"product_id":"oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright-9780374251017","title":"Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e by Wright, Charles. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374251017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe selected works of one of our finest American poets\n\nThe thread that dangles us\nbetween a dark and a darker dark,\nIs luminous, sure, but smooth sided.\nDon’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there.\nDon’t touch it, in fact, anywhere―\nLet it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.\n―from “Scar Tissue”\n\nOver the course of his work―more than twenty books in total―Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright’s poetry: “language, landscape, and the idea of God.” No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality.\n\nThe recipient of almost every honor in poetry―the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few―and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career―for devout fans and newcomers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986907230261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374251010","price":77.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374251017_155f2ec8-6b4f-4487-a66f-95d55703a51f.jpg?v=1778897066","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright-9780374251017","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}