Early Poetry of Charles Wright

Robert D. Denham is John P. Fishwick Professor of English Emeritus at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He has also taught at Emory & Henry College, after which he served as Director of English Programs and Director of the Association of Departments of English for the Modern Language Association. He has written and edited more than twenty-five volumes on Frye.

• Table of ContentsPreface      List of Abbreviations and Shortened Forms      <A Charles Wright Chronology      Introduction      Part I. The First Trilogy: Country Music: Selected Early PoemsChapter 1. The Grave of the Right Hand and Hard Freight      Chapter 2. Bloodlines      Chapter 3. China Trace      Part II. The Second Trilogy: The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990Chapter 4. The Southern Cross      Chapter 5. The Other Side of the River      Chapter 6. Zone Journals and Xionia      Appendix 1: Reviews of Wright’s Books, 1968–1990      Appendix 2. Secondary Sources on Wright’s Poetry      Index

“invaluable to anyone wanting to teach, or even to read, the early poetry of Charles Wright”—Appalachian Heritage.