{"product_id":"rising-falling-hovering-book-cd-wright-9781556593093","title":"Rising, Falling, Hovering","description":"\u003cp\u003eInternational Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize 2009\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"C.D. Wright's thirteenth collection, \u003ci\u003eRising, Falling, Hovering,\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us what poetry is for. This is poetry as white phosphorus, written with merciless love and depthless anger.\" --from the Griffin Prize judges' citation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wright is a resolutely experimental poet, funny and intemperate, and the poems in her latest volume manage an unusual alchemy--they have a raw, unfinished quality that never feels provisional.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"These poems succeed at storytelling and at painting realistic scenes. Wright emerges a modern woman coping with relationships in a world full of violence and wars. Recommended for larger public libraries and all academic collections.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wright braids some of her most personal and intimate poetry to date with an extended meditation on the consequences of America's contemporary stance toward other countries.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"C.D. Wright has an uncanny and characteristic reverence for both the vernacular and the esoteric, which leads to riveting and rare depictions of American culture. . . . It's been a while since I read an entire book of poetry in rapture. After finishing \u003ci\u003eRising, Falling, Hovering\u003c\/i\u003e, I was reminded of why I love the medium, what it can do.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e (Seattle)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeeply personal and politically ferocious, \u003ci\u003eRising, Falling, Hovering\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the commonly felt crises of our times--from illegal immigration and the specific consequences of empire-building to the challenges of parenting and the honesty required of human relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the other night I know you are sorry I am sorry too We were tired Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eand my open-shut-case mouth You and your clockwork disciplines And I know it is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003etoo far to go But we can't leave it to the forces to rub out the color of the world\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen collections of poetry and prose. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Wright is a professor of English at Brown University and lives outside Providence, Rhode Island.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625521357073,"sku":"GOR013295845","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037101555985,"sku":"NIN9781556593093","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423028543761,"sku":"CIN1556593090VG","price":8.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106534715665,"sku":"CIN1556593090G","price":18.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684371099921,"sku":"NLS9781556593093","price":18.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53613799538961,"sku":"CIN1556593090A","price":7.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556593090.jpg?v=1786104848","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/rising-falling-hovering-book-cd-wright-9781556593093","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}