Robert Wrigley

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Robert Wrigley



Robert Wrigley is the author of seven books of poetry, including, most recently, Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006); Lives of the Animals (Penguin, 2003), winner of the 2005 Poets Prize; and Reign of Snakes (Penguin, 1999), winner of the 2000 Kingsley Tufts Award in Poetry. His book, In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (Penguin, 1995) won the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, and his poems have appeared in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review. His poems have been reprinted twice in the Best American Poetry anthologies, and five times in the Pushcart Prize collections. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the N ...more

Average rating: 4.02 · 737 ratings · 111 reviews · 31 distinct worksSimilar authors
Lives of the Animals

4.17 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Reign of Snakes

4.18 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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Anatomy of Melancholy and O...

3.81 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Beautiful Country

4.09 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Earthly Meditations: New an...

4.14 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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The True Account of Myself ...

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In the Bank of Beautiful Si...

4.55 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1995
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Box

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Moon in a Mason Jar

4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1986
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Moon in a Mason Jar & What ...

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“The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go unnoticed keeps the artist in business.”
Robert Wrigley

“She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them.”
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