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C.D. Wright

Wednesday, January 7, 2009  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

C. D. Wright has written ten volumes of poetry and is the former poet laureate of Rhode Island. C. D. Wright's many awards include the Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. Wright's poems move freely between coastal Rhode Island and the Ozarks, delivered with the keen observation of an outsider. In Wright's 2003 collection, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, Deborah Luster's haunting, sepia-tinted photographs of Louisiana's incarcerated men and women accompany Wright's poems to "ward off forgetting." The subjects of these poems bear life's scars - from literal knife wounds to faces masked by self-sufficiency and bravado. Wright's most recent book, Rising, Falling, Hovering, deals with the uncertainties of modern life that the title suggests. The poems shift between Mexico and America, troubled by a world at odds with itself. At once personal and political, Wright peppers the work with uneasy observations: "One has the sense of something out there that needs saving." Yet her wariness of poetry or art as the answer also comes through. She writes, "Nary a death arrested nor a hair of harm averted / by any scrawny farrago of letters."

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