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Title

Negative blue : selected later poems / Charles Wright.

Author

Wright, Charles, 1935-

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

ix, 206 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

A selection of recent poems by American author Charles Wright, written as a coda to his 1998 nine-volume project, "Appalachia."

Subject

American poetry > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn -- Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year -- Under the Nine Trees in January -- After Reading Wang Wei, I Go Outside to the Full Moon -- Easter 1989 -- Reading Rorty and Paul Celan One Morning in Early June -- After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard -- Thinking of David Summers at the Beginning of Winter -- Cicada -- Tennessee Line -- Looking Outside the Cabin Window, I Remember a Line by Li Po -- Mid-winter Snowfall in the Piazza Dante -- Sprung Narratives -- Broken English -- Maple on the Hill -- Chickamauga -- Still Life on a Matchbox Lid -- Blaise Pascal Lip-syncs the Void -- Winter-Worship -- The Silent Generation -- An Ordinary Afternoon in Charlottesville -- Mondo Angelico -- Mondo Henbane -- Miles Davis and Elizabeth Bishop Fake the Break -- Peccatology -- East of the Blue Ridge, Our Tombs Are in the Dove's Throat -- "Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it" -- As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light -- Absence Inside an Absence -- Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn -- With Simic and Marinetti at the Giubbe Rosse -- To the Egyptian Mummy in the Etruscan Museum at Cortona -- With Eddie and Nancy in Arezzo at the Caffe Grande -- There Is No Shelter -- Watching the Equinox Arrive in Charlottesville, September 1992 -- Waiting for Tu Fu -- Paesaggio Notturno -- Still Life with Stick and Word -- Summer Storm -- Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night -- Looking Again at What I Looked At for Seventeen Years -- Looking Across Laguna Canyon at Dusk, West-by-Northwest -- Venexia I -- Venexia II -- Yard Work -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- Envoi -- Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho -- Meditation on Form and Measure -- Poem Almost Wholly in My Own Manner -- Meditation on Summer and Shapelessness -- The Appalachian Book of the Dead -- Umbrian Dreams -- October II -- Lives of the Saints -- Christmas East of the Blue Ridge -- Negatives II -- Lives of the Artists -- Deep Measure -- Thinking of Winter at the Beginning of Summer -- Jesuit Graves -- Meditation on Song and Structure -- Sitting at Dusk in the Back Yard After the Mondrian Retrospective -- Black Zodiac -- China Mail -- Disjecta Membra -- Stray Paragraphs in February, Year of the Rat -- Stray Paragraphs in April, Year of the Rat -- Basic Dialogue -- Star Turn -- A Bad Memory Makes You a Metaphysician, a Good One Makes You a Saint -- Thinking about the Poet Larry Levis One Afternoon in Late May -- In the Kingdom of the Past, the Brown-Eyed Man Is King -- Passing the Morning under the Serenissima -- Venetian Dog -- In the Valley of the Magra -- Returned to the Yaak Cabin, I Overhear an Old Greek Song -- Ars Poetica II -- Cicada Blue -- All Landscape Is Abstract, and Tends to Repeat Itself -- Opus Posthumous -- Quotations -- The Appalachian Book of the Dead II -- Indian Summer II -- Autumn's Sidereal, November's a Ball and Chain -- The Writing Life -- Reply to Wang Wei -- Giorgio Morandi and the Talking Eternity Blues -- Drone and Ostinato -- Ostinato and Drone -- "It's Turtles All the Way Down" -- Half February -- Back Yard Boogie Woogie -- The Appalachian Book of the Dead III -- Opus Posthumus II -- Body Language -- "When You're Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It's Eastertime Too" -- The Appalachian Book of the Dead IV -- Spring Storm -- Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening -- "The Holy Ghost Asketh for Us with Mourning and Weeping Unspeakable" -- The Appalachian Book of the Dead V -- Star Turn II -- After Reading T'ao Ch'ing, I Wander Untethered Through the Short Grass -- Remembering Spello, Sitting Outside in Prampolini's Garden -- After Rereading Robert Graves, I Go Outside to Get My Head Together -- American Twilight -- The Appalachian Book of the Dead VI -- Landscape as Metaphor, Landscape as Fate and a Happy Life -- Opus Posthumus III -- Step-children of Paradise -- Freezing Rain -- Thinking about the Night Sky, I Remember a Poem by Tu Fu -- North American Bear -- If You Talk the Talk, You Better Walk the Walk -- St. Augustine and the Arctic Bear -- Sky Diving.

ISBN

• 0374220204 (alk. paper)
• 0374527733 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^99036987^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library