I write it, study it, read it, edit it, publish it, teach it…Sometimes I weary of it. In an autobiographical prose poem from 2005, Wright, a MacArthur fellow and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, wrote this of herself: “I poetry. Tennessee’s retired chair available on eBay. About persons of small means.” Some of those persons were inmates she interviewed in Louisiana prisons, who inspired these lines: 12 at 67, wrote that her poems were about “desire, conflict, the dearth of justice for all. Wright’s poetry was grounded in her native Arkansas - she called her early style “idiom Ozarkia” - but her work broke so many boundaries and wandered so freely that she belonged, in the words of the poet Joel Brouwer, “to a school of exactly one.” Wright, who died on Jan. Happily for them all, their books live on.Ĭ.D. This year we lost a Nobel laureate, several Pulitzer Prize winners, many writers with wide readerships, and many more who never achieved the acclaim or the audiences they deserved.
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