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 | Bridgeport, Ohio - Page 296And nobody would commit suicide, only To find beyond death Bridgeport, Ohio and because what he places over against that death is the life of the ...more pages: 2 172 185 232 275 |
| Martins Ferry, Ohio - Page 1James Arlington Wright was born on the thirteenth of December, 1927, in Martins Ferry, Ohio, across the Ohio River and seven miles upstream from ...more pages: 55 90 179 263 292 336 369 370 387 408 |
| Pine Island, Minnesota - Page 129Wright's "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" supports this contention. The poem appears in Amenities exactly as it ...more pages: 9 106 141 150 162 163 165 179 310 408 |
More | Stateline, Nevada - Page 263Ohio, to Stateline, Nevada, with significant stopovers in Minneapolis and in Fargo, North Dakota, it is a landlocked, borderless life whose terms are ...more pages: 173 217 |
| Madison, Minnesota - Page 219"A Note on Cesar Vallejo, " in Cesar Vallejo: Twenty Poems, chosen and translated by John Knoepfle, James Wright, and Robert Bly (Madison, Minn., ...more pages: 197 |
| Wheeling, West Virginia - Page 1was born on the thirteenth of December, 1927, in Martins Ferry, Ohio, across the Ohio River and seven miles upstream from Wheeling, West Virginia. ...more pages: 172 187 215 232 252 275 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts - Page 356of Ohio and Aunt Agnes who is dying in a "nut house" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which "Is no more Harvard / Than you could ever be. ... |
| Minneapolis - Page 296I could not bear To allow my poor brother my body to die In Minneapolis. The old man Walt Whitman our countryman Is now in America our country Dead. ...more pages: 11 146 155 184 227 263 325 335 370 372 |
| Fargo, North Dakota - Page 263Nevada, with significant stopovers in Minneapolis and in Fargo, North Dakota, it is a landlocked, borderless life whose terms are spread out, ...more pages: 252 279 |
| Moundsville, West Virginia - Page 271reboant movement, but is instead checked, baffled, splintered: The unwashed shadows Of blast furnaces from Moundsville, West Virginia, Are sneaking ...more pages: 209 |
| Missoula, Montana - Page 204Dark car tracks move in out of the darkness. I stare at the train window marked with soft dust. I have awakened at Missoula, Montana, utterly happy.more pages: 180 |
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| Rochester, Minnesota - Page 69about the kinship between men and horses in "A Blessing": Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. ...more pages: 274 |
| Bridgeport - Page 1Just north of Martins Ferry lie Rayland, Tiltonsville, Yorkville, and Florence; south are Bridgeport and Belaire. ... |
| Taranto - Page 392Or south to the instep of Italy, so anciently Greek that the fishermen of Taranto, for example, still retain elements in their speech of the Dorians ...more pages: 393 |
| Milan - Page 203II The small world of the car Plunges through the deep fields of the night, On the road from Willmar to Milan. This solitude covered with iron Moves ... |
| Madrid - Page 75Smiles glitter in Madrid. Eisenhower has touched hands with Franco, embracing In a glare of photographers. Clean new bombers from America muffle their ...more pages: 211 |
| Florence - Page 1Just north of Martins Ferry lie Rayland, Tiltonsville, Yorkville, and Florence; south are Bridgeport and Belaire. ...more pages: 349 355 |
| New York City - Page 308The young poets of New York come to me with Their mangled figures of speech, But they have little pity For the pure clear word. ...more pages: 10 14 15 16 155 212 240 259 343 |
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| Rome - Page 313"hateful grandeur," the inextricable "greatness and horror" that fascinated Lowell in his treatment of Rome and the United States in Near the Ocean. ...more pages: 357 366 |
| Vienna - Page 117and in his poetry translations, especially those of Georg Trakl, whose work he came across while on a Fulbright Fellowship in Vienna during 1952-53. ...more pages: 5 100 363 |
| Venice - Page 413mode of inner recovery — they tend to be the best — are "Coming Home to Maui," "To the Cicada," "Fresh Wind in Venice," "A Flower Passage," "Leaving.more pages: 414 |
| Chicago - Page 184wheat and the mysterious lives / Of the unnamed poor," and those angular streets of Minneapolis or Chicago where, he tells us, there are men "who ... |
| Seattle - Page 5who was enrolled with Wright in the Trakl seminar, encouraged Wright to consider graduate work at the University of Washington in Seattle. ...more pages: 175 |
| Padova - Page 316and in the concluding prose poem he celebrates not "the enduring fruits of five hundred years," the paintings in an exhibit in Padua, but "The Fruits ...more pages: 312 |
| Vallejo - Page 407For Wright the new models included Trakl, Neruda and Vallejo, all of whom he translated, as well as certain Chinese poets to whom he paid a more ... |
| Madison - Page 146Wright at this time was teaching at the University of Minnesota and living in Minneapolis, and Bly was living on his farm near Madison, in western ...more pages: 8 |
| Marietta - Page 131We paused together once beside The Ohio river flowing past the town Of Marietta, where the trees, he said, Held in green shadows many noblest men, ... |
| Mukilteo, Washington - Page 110Defeated for re-election, The half-educated sheriff of Mukilteo, Washington, Has been drinking again. I can hear my father downstairs, ... |
| Durango, Colo - Page 418Durango, Colo.: Logbridge-Rhodcs, 1988. MalkolT, Karl. Escape from the Self: A Study of Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics. ...more pages: 420 |
| Athens - Page 311 |
| Paris - Page 16And after they had returned to Paris for the month of August, he complained for the first time of having a sore throat that wouldn't go away. ...more pages: 15 404 |
| Pittsburgh - Page 223 |
| Buffalo - Page 14Wright's life — though in May he was given an honorary degree at Kenyon, and over the summer he taught at the State University of New York in Buffalo. ... |
| Atlanta - Page 54He compares Dickey, to whom he refers in passing as "an advertising man from Atlanta," with one of the characters in John Dos Passos's USA, ... |
| Detroit - Page 404Martins Ferry (or Dixon or Detroit) would never have understood — past a literal reading of the iconography, which looked like a moral, and wasn't. ... |
| London - Page 404Note that they're not in the European cultural capitals any more (except for London, which is anyway a string of villages), although they visit them. ... |
| Jerusalem - Page 30The angel of the Resurrection is followed about the neighborhood of Jerusalem as he awaits the moment of his appointed tasks, and becomes humanly ... |
References to this bookFrom Google ScholarMichael Graves, Victor, L Schermer - 1998 - Psychoanalytic Review Contents | 221 | | | | | 239 | | | | From Three Visionary Poets | 254 | | | | | 278 | | | | Open Secrets | 305 | | | | | 331 | | | | | 352 | | | | Light Motion Life | 365 | | | |
MoreOther editions | by Peter Stitt, Frank Graziano
Limited preview - 1990
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