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Sunil Iyengar | The New Criterion
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The poet as windowpane by Sunil Iyengar
James Wright (1927–80) was born the same year as Galway Kinnell and W. S. Merwin and two years before Adrienne Rich. Like them, he made his debut on the American poetry scene with lyrics in traditional stanza patterns. Also like these poets, and numerous others in the 1950s and 1960s, he soon abandoned the consistent use of rhyme and meter. Robert Lowell, born a decade before Wright, found his way to the comparatively free-verse idiom of Life Studies (1959) by burrowing inward. Though M. L.
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James Wright: A Life in Poetry by Jonathan Blunk
Jonathan Blunk reaches far into the future with this luminous biography of one of the finest and most important American poets of the twentieth century, James Wright. Nearly five hundred pages, the book is replete with four hundred pages of narrative, thirty-eight judiciously selected photographs, sixty-eight pages of extensive notes, acknowledgments, and a detailed, twenty-one-page index, making the book a necessary resource for Wright scholarship.
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