Box by Robert Wrigley

Box by Robert Wrigley

A powerful new collection from an acclaimed, award-winning poet

With nine previously published collections of poetry, Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses.

Wrigley's tenth collection, Box, is a book of poems obsessed with human containment, with the way people are contained or confined--by time, mortality, technology, identity, culture, and history--in almost everything they are and everything they do. Even the body, even the poem itself, is in this regard a kind of self-containing crate, in which the human being, perhaps the human spirit, is shipped into the world at large. But Box is also a book obsessed with escape from containment, and escape comes from dreams, from deep awareness, from contemplation, from love, and above all, as Wallace Stevens insisted, from the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. The poems in Box aim to do nothing less than help people live their lives, as Stevens put it.

In the Bank of Beautiful Sins, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; Reign of Snakes, winner of the 2000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Lives of the Animals, winner of the 2004 Poet's Prize; and, most recently, Beautiful Country are among Robert Wrigley's poetry books. He teaches at the University of Idaho and lives near Moscow, Idaho, with his wife, writer Kim Barnes.

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ISBN 13	9780143130567
ISBN 10	0143130560
Title	Box
Author	Robert Wrigley
Series	Penguin Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2017-03-28
Number of pages	80
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