Book

Wright, Franz, 1953-2015, author.

Kindertotenwald : prose poems / Franz Wright.

1st ed.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

111 pages ; 22 cm

"A genre-bending collection of prose poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Franz Wright brings us surreal tales of childhood, adolescence, and adult awareness, moving from the gorgeous to the shocking to a sense of peace. Wright's most intimate thoughts and images appear before us in dramatic and spectral short narratives: mesmerizing poems whose colloquial sound and rhythms announce a new path for this luminous and masterful poet. In these journeys, we hear the constant murmured 'yes' of creation--'it will be packing its small suitcase soon; it will leave the keys dangling from the lock and set out at last, ' Wright tells us. He introduces us to the powerful presences in his world (the haiku master Basho, Nietzsche, St. Teresa of Avila, and especially his father, James Wright) as he explores the continually unfolding loss of childhood and the mixed blessings that follow it. Taken together, the pieces deliver the diary of a poet--'a fairly good egg in hot water, ' as he describes himself--who seeks to narrate his way through the dark wood of his title, following the crumbs of language. 'Take everything, ' Wright suggests, 'you can have it all back, but leave for a little the words, of all you gave the most mysteriously lasting.' With a strong presence of the dramatic in every line, Kindertotenwald pulls us deep into this journey, where we too are lost and then found again with him."--Publisher's website.

Prose poems.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Prose poems.

Poetry.

"This Is a Borzoi Book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Wintersleep -- Women falling -- Nietzsche's mirror -- The wall -- The poet (1644-1694) -- Manuscript score of Messiaen's quartet for the end of time -- History -- The yes -- Deep revisions -- As was -- Forecast -- One hundred and first reason to stay in your room -- Abandoned library -- On my father's farm in New York City -- The Peyote journal breaks off -- Home for Christmas -- Afterflight -- I am in a chamber of Lascaux -- Blade -- Morning moon -- Transfusion -- Where is the past -- The child psychiatrist -- The wound -- Some recent criticism -- I don't know how to tell you this -- Kore -- Bees of Eleusis -- The window -- Our mother -- Brothers -- Postcard -- The last -- Work -- Imago -- Portrait of two saints -- Cutting -- In memory of the future -- Can you say that again -- The scar's birthday party -- Law -- The last person in purgatory -- The lesson -- Litany -- Mrs. Alone -- Kiekegaard proposes -- With Bacovia -- The New Jerusalem --- Preliminary remarks -- Nude with handgun and rosary -- Goodbye -- Märchen -- Five after midnight -- The loneliest boy in the world -- Nouse released from trap -- Old man in hospital bed -- Roberst, cat -- Letter --Glamourous career -- Flailing treeline before rainstorm -- Dead seagull -- The reunion -- Circle -- Song -- Our conversation.

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