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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b>Poet
Charles Wright<br>
<br>
Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 6 p.m.<br>
<br>
St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street, New Haven<br>
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</b>Sponsored by the Department of English and St. Anthony Hall<br>
<br>
Free and open to the public<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Charles Wright is one of the most widely acclaimed and
critically beloved poets of the past thirty years. His poems, which in their
long lines combine near-Biblical weight with a sharp wit, examine with striking
clarity the central dilemmas of time, experience, and language’s power to
capture either. “The secret of language,” he wrote in his most recent
collection, “is the secret of desire,” and Wright’s preoccupation so often is
to probe his own unfolding language for the bedrock truths that, almost geologically,
underlie it. His subject is landscape; his landscape, Appalachia. His most
recent book is <i>Littlefoot </i>(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007); his other
volumes include <i>Scar Tissue</i> (2006), <i>Buffalo Yoga </i>(2004), <i>Appalachia</i>
(1998), <i>Black Zodiac </i>(1997), <i>Zone Journals </i>(1988), <i>The Other
Side of the River </i>(1984), <i>Country Music/ Selected Early Poems </i>(1982),
and <i>The Southern Cross </i>(1981), among others.<br>
Wright has been the recipient of many awards, most notably the Pulitzer
Prize(for <i>Black Zodiac</i>), the National Book Award (for <i>Country Music:
New and Selected Poems</i>), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal. A Chancellor of the Academy
of American Poets, he is Souder Family Professor of English at the University
of Virginia at Charlottesville.<br>
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<p>Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
<a href="mailto:susan.bianconi@yale.edu">susan.bianconi@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection
of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post
announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the
announcement, including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to
the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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