{"product_id":"steal-away-selected-and-new-poems-1556591942","title":"Steal Away: Selected and New Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1556591942\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wright, C.D.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wrights best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new \"retablos\" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright-with her Southern accent and cinematic eye-couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that \"offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning.\"from \"Our Dust\"You didnt know my weariness, error, incapacity,I was the poetof shadow work and towns with quarter-inchphone books, of failedroadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs andsharpening shops,jobs at the weapons plant and the Maybellinefactory on the penitentiary road.\"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.\"-The New Yorker\"Wright shrinks back from nothing.\"-Voice Literary Supplement\"C.D. Wright is a devastating visionary. She writes in light. She sets language on fire.\"-American LettersC.D. Wright has published nine collections of poetry and earned many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and in 1994 was named State Poet of Rhode Island. With her husband, Forrest Gander, she edits Lost Roads Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51866188611872,"sku":"NEW1556591942","price":17.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91GSSR95o7L.jpg?v=1781673557","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/steal-away-selected-and-new-poems-1556591942","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}