{"product_id":"9780374528799","title":"A Short History of the Shadow : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Short History of the Shadow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Charles Wright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuminous new poems from one who \"has long been a poet of gorgeous description\" —William Logan, \u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of  isolation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't just do something, sit there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so I have, so I have,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\tthe seasons curling around me like smoke,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.\u003c\/i\u003e—from \"Body and Soul II\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in \u003ci\u003eNegative Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, of his \"Appalachian Book of the Dead,\" a trilogy of trilogies hailed \"among the great long poems of the century\" (James Longenbach, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e). In \u003ci\u003eA Short History of the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“[Wright] finds the sublime in the unlikeliest places, and at his best makes you think such places are exactly where to look.” —\u003ci\u003eWilliam Logan, The New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374528799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40652254642382,"sku":"9780374528799","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_952e9a7b-95a6-4812-b470-f0a029d71d20.jpg?v=1639275009","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374528799","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}