Description
The Shape of Light collects the prose pieces that James Wright wrote during and about his trips to Italy and France. The fruits of the season drawn from notebooks that were written at cafe tables and hotel desks and transformed into this luminous prose.
Reviews
“Like a great painter, James Wright, in his work is a master of both light and of love. With this man we are in the presence not only of one of the greatest poets of our time but one of its greatest prose writers as well. Furthermore, I can’t get over the feeling that the treatment of light in his work is at base a concern for God, for as the medieval doctors said, lux est umbra Die: light is the shadow of God.” - John Logan “Wright’s poems, with their grace and intelligence, not only stand as a rebuke to most of the glib work of his time, but remain among the finest examples of the midcentury American Lyric.” -J.D. McClatchy - The New York Times Book Review
Accolades
James Wright (1927-1980) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1972. His many books include the recent Selected Poems and A Wild Perfection: Selected Letters.