Works by
C. D. Wright
(Aka Carolyn D. Wright)
(Poet)
[1949 - ]

Poetry

• 40 Watts (2009)
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• Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008, 2009) -- Winner 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize
  Deeply personal and politically ferocious, Rising, Falling, Hovering addresses the commonly felt crises of our times-from illegal immigration and the specific consequences of empire-building to the challenges of parenting and the honesty required of human relationships.

• Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (2005)
  C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.
  
  Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected memoir-poem-essay about contemporary American poetry. Ever focused on possibilities, Wright demonstrates that "the search for models becomes a search for alternatives," and thereby defines the terms by which poets can chart their own course.

• One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (2003) with Deborah Luster, Photographer
  Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons-where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a "factotum" for a portrait photographer-One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the psychic toll of protracted time passed in constricted space. It is a riveting mosaic of distinct voices, epistolary pieces, elements from a moralistic board game, road signage, prison data, inmate correspondence, and "counts" of things-from baby's teeth to chigger bites:
  
  Count your folding money
  Count the times you said you wouldn't go back
  Count your debts
  Count the roaches when the light comes on
  Count your kids after the housefire

• Steal Away: New and Selected Poems (2002)

• Deepstep Come Shining (1998)

• Tremble (1996)
  In an acclaimed collection of taut, sensual poetry, award-winning poet C.D. Wright interweaves familiar, coloquial speech with strikingly inventive language, leaving each poem a distinctive entity, yet interconnected by linked metaphors and images.

• Just Whistle (1993)

• String Light (1991)

• Further Adventures with You (1986)

• Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues (1981)

Other

• American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), David Walker, ed.

See also:

• Biography - C. D. Wright (2007)
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