The Shape of Light

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James Wright

The fruits of the season, James Wright’s luminous prose captures eternal moments in his travels through Italy and France.

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“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

James Arlington Wright was an American lyric poet in the post-World War II decades. He often wrote about his experience of Depression-era poverty in the Midwest. His Collected Poems won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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