Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Franz Wright · 2003 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Short, stripped poems come out of years of addiction and mental illness and a turn to Catholic faith, speaking to God, to the dead and to the poet's own earlier self. The lines are brief and abrupt, and consolation is offered with suspicion. A lyric collection by the son of the poet James Wright.

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