James Wright
Writer
December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980
Credits:
Poems:
A Blessing; A
Note Left In Jimmy Leonard's Shack; A Poem About George Doty In The Death
House; A Winter Daybreak Above Vence; As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of
Winter...; At The Executed Murderer's Grave; Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry,
Ohio; Beginning; Bologna: A Poem About Gold; Depressed By A Book Of Bad
Poetry...; Fear Is What Quickens Me; Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium; Having
Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon...; Hook; In Response To A
Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling...; Lying In A Hammock At William
Duffy's; May Morning; Northern Pike; On The Skeleton Of A Hound; Outside Fargo,
North Dakota; Rip; Saint Judas; Small Frogs Killed On The Highway; The Jewel;
The Journey; The Lambs on the Boulder; The Last Pieta, in Florence; To A
Blossoming Pear Tree; To The Muse; Trying To Pray.
Books:
A Wild
Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright (2005); Above the River, The
Complete Poems (1990); Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio—Broadside (1963);
Collected Poems (1971); James Wright, In Defense Against This Exile. Letters To
Wayne Burns (1985); Moments of the Italian Summer (1976); Saint Judas (1959);
Selected Poems (2005); Shall We Gather at the River (1967); The Branch Will Not
Break (1963); The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon
Silko and James Wright (2009); The Green Wall (1957); The Temple at Nîmes
(1982); This Journey (1982); To a Blossoming Pear Tree (1977); Two Citizens
(1973).
