{"product_id":"negative-blue-book-charles-wright-9780374527730","title":"Negative Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTime will append us like suit coats left out overnight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSilk handkerchief limp with dew,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003esleeves in a slow dance with the wind.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnd love will kill us--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLove, and the winds from under the earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethat grind us to grain-out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --from \"Still Life with Spring and Time to Burn\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Charles Wright published \u003ci\u003eAppalachia\u003c\/i\u003e in 1998, it marked the completion of a nine-volume project, of which James Longenbach wrote in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Charles Wright's trilogy of trilogies--call it 'The Appalachian Book of the Dead'--is sure to be counted among the great long poems of the century.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The first two of those trilogies were collected in \u003ci\u003eCountry Music\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Ten Thousand Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). Here Wright adds to his third trilogy (\u003ci\u003eChickamauga\u003c\/i\u003e [1995], \u003ci\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c\/i\u003e [1997], and \u003ci\u003eAppalachia\u003c\/i\u003e [1998]) a section of new poems that suggest new directions in the work of this sensuous, spirit-haunted poet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351638380817,"sku":"CIN0374527733G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761918087441,"sku":"CIN0374527733VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001788039441,"sku":"NIN9780374527730","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52136897577233,"sku":"NLS9780374527730","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53357647266065,"sku":"GOR011911492","price":9.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374527733.jpg?v=1786110379","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/negative-blue-book-charles-wright-9780374527730","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}