James Wright
Writer
December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980
Credits:
Poems:
A Blessing; A Note Left
In Jimmy Leonard's Shack; A Poem About George Doty In The Death House; A Winter
Daybreak Above Vence; As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter...; At The
Executed Murderer's Grave; Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio; Beginning; Bologna:
A Poem About Gold; Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry...; Fear Is What Quickens
Me; Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium; Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The
Wreckage Of The Moon...; Hook; In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest
Whorehouse In Wheeling...; Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's; May Morning; Northern
Pike; On The Skeleton Of A Hound; Outside Fargo, North Dakota; Rip; Saint Judas;
Small Frogs Killed On The Highway; The Jewel; The Journey; The Lambs on the
Boulder; The Last Pieta, in Florence; To A Blossoming Pear Tree; To The Muse; Trying
To Pray.
Books:
A Wild Perfection: The
Selected Letters of James Wright (2005); Above the River, The Complete Poems (1990);
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio—Broadside (1963); Collected Poems (1971); James
Wright, In Defense Against This Exile. Letters To Wayne Burns (1985); Moments
of the Italian Summer (1976); Saint Judas (1959); Selected Poems (2005); Shall
We Gather at the River (1967); The Branch Will Not Break (1963); The Delicacy
and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright (2009);
The Green Wall (1957); The Temple at Nîmes (1982); This Journey (1982); To a
Blossoming Pear Tree (1977); Two Citizens (1973).
