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Country Music: Selected Early Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Name: Country Music: Selected Early Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
ISBN: 081951201X

Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright’s first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary

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“I want to be bruised by God. I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out. I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed. I want to be entered and picked clean.”

— Charles Wright, amazon.com

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