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Sestets

Sestets
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Sestets Trade paperback - 2010

by Wright, Charles

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Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, 2010. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy with slight rubbing to the back cover, else a clean copy with minimal shelfwear and an uncreased spine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in., 75 pp. // From the Miami Herald: 'there is always room to connect his highly polished poems to the world where most of us lead mundane lives'.
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  • Title Sestets
  • Author Wright, Charles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, NY
  • Publication date 2010
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 641262
  • ISBN 9780374532147 / 0374532141
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.3 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 0.76 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008033990
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: "a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous." Like his previous books, Sestets is seeded with the lyrics of old love songs and spirituals, and "there is always room to connect his highly polished poems to the world where most of us lead mundane lives" (Miami Herald). Soaring and earthy, lyrical and direct, Charles Wright is an American treasure, and his search for a truth that transcends change and death settles finally on the beauties of nature and language: "Time is a graceless enemy, but purls as it comes and goes."

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Citations

  • Books & Culture, 03/01/2010, Page 16
  • New York Times Book Review, 05/16/2010, Page 32

About the author

Charles Wright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 2014, he was named Poet Laureate of the United States.

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