{"product_id":"9780374539085-oblivion-banjo","title":"Oblivion Banjo","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Poetry of Charles Wright. The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there. Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere-Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.-from \"Scar Tissue\"Over the course of his work-more than twenty books in total-Charles Wright has built \"one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century\" (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: \"language, landscape, and the idea of God.\" No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality.The recipient of almost every honor in poetry-the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few-and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career-for devout fans and newcomers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40831828983905,"sku":"9780374539085","price":34.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_7638205_jpg.jpg?v=1706609980","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780374539085-oblivion-banjo","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}