Volume 54, Number 15 · October 11, 2007
From the Homicidal to the Ecstatic
By Helen Vendler
God's Silence
by Franz Wright
Knopf, 144 pp., $25.00
Earlier Poems
by Franz Wright
Knopf, 245 pp., $26.95
Two books by Franz Wright have appeared in the past year and a half: a new collection, God's Silence, and a reissue called Earlier Poems, which includes poems from 1982 through 1995. Between these earlier poems and God's Silence, Wright published, among other volumes, The Beforelife and Walking to Martha's Vineyard, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. In his poems and interviews he has described a theme underlying all his writing: the intense joy he experienced when he first wrote poetry and the way he dedicated himself to recapturing that joy, whatever it cost, whatever the damage to others.
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