{"product_id":"9780374539085","title":"Oblivion Banjo","description":"Author: Charles Wright\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780374539085\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus Giroux\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Apr 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 784 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe thread that dangles us \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ebetween a dark and a darker dark, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIs luminous, sure, but smooth sided. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDon’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDon’t touch it, in fact, anywhere—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLet it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n—from \"Scar Tissue\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nOver the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Charles Wright has built \"one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century\" (David Young, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright’s poetry: \"language, landscape, and the idea of God.\" No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe recipient of almost every honor in poetry—the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few—and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career—for devout fans and newcomers alike.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47901053059230,"sku":"ING-9780374539085","price":70.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780374539085.jpg?v=1782352697","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780374539085","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}