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40 Watts
- GenresPoetry
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
C.D. Wright
43 books99 followersC. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She earned a BA in French from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) in 1971 and briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue an MFA from the University of Arkansas, which she received in 1976. Her poetry thesis was titled Alla Breve Loving.
In 1977 the publishing company founded by Frank Stanford, Lost Roads Publishers, published Wright's first collection, Room Rented by A Single Woman. After Stanford died in 1978, Wright took over Lost Roads, continuing the mission of publishing new poets and starting the practice of publishing translations. In 1979, she moved to San Francisco, where she met poet Forrest Gander. Wright and Gander married in 1983 and had a son, Brecht, and co-edited Lost Roads until 2005.
In 1981, Wright lived in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico and completed her third book of poems, Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues. In 1983 she moved to Providence, Rhode Island to teach writing at Brown University as the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English. In 2013,
C.D. Wright died on January 12, 2016 at the age of 67 in Barrington, Rhode Island.
In 1977 the publishing company founded by Frank Stanford, Lost Roads Publishers, published Wright's first collection, Room Rented by A Single Woman. After Stanford died in 1978, Wright took over Lost Roads, continuing the mission of publishing new poets and starting the practice of publishing translations. In 1979, she moved to San Francisco, where she met poet Forrest Gander. Wright and Gander married in 1983 and had a son, Brecht, and co-edited Lost Roads until 2005.
In 1981, Wright lived in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico and completed her third book of poems, Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues. In 1983 she moved to Providence, Rhode Island to teach writing at Brown University as the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English. In 2013,
C.D. Wright died on January 12, 2016 at the age of 67 in Barrington, Rhode Island.
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March 28, 2020
O, for the ships that pass us day or night. CD Wright's relentless brilliance ever shines, shines, shines....
“your life blew past as a shirt off a line/ but then turned and turned again/ O archangel of the mirror”
“my beloved are the words / of the rambler / if not the words of substance / the snow smeared across my front / warm to the touch / though we remain separated / as if by a chair / and I am unwilling to read ahead”
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“your life blew past as a shirt off a line/ but then turned and turned again/ O archangel of the mirror”
“my beloved are the words / of the rambler / if not the words of substance / the snow smeared across my front / warm to the touch / though we remain separated / as if by a chair / and I am unwilling to read ahead”
Read full review here: https://medium.com/anomalyblog/readin...
January 30, 2024
Reading these poems feels like watching real things through frosted glass, kind of in a surrealist way. It's personally not my cup of tea, but I can appreciate the artistry.
March 15, 2013
Nicely-made & nicely-glimmer-filled.
I don't remember much of it, except having enjoyed it and having wanted a little more architecture.
Should re-read.
I don't remember much of it, except having enjoyed it and having wanted a little more architecture.
Should re-read.
November 11, 2015
Lovely off-kilter short poems that often astonish with detail and rhythm. This meditative, and lonely, chapbook can be read -- and re-read -- in a single satisfying sitting.
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