{"product_id":"f-isbn-9780375712159","title":"F","description":"\u003cb\u003eFranz Wright is at his best in this beautiful and startling collection. In these riveting poems, as he considers his mortality, the poet finds a new elation and clarity on the page, handing over for our examination the flawed yet kneeling-in-gratitude self he has become.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWright declares, “I’ve said all that \/ I had to say. \/ In writing. \/ I signed my name. \/ It’s death’s move.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eF\u003c\/i\u003e stands both for Franz, the poet-speaker who represents all of us on our baffling lifelong journeys, and for the alphabet, the utility and sometimes brutality of our symbols. (It may be, he jokes grimly, his “grade in life.”) From “Entries of the Cell,” the long central poem that details the loneliness of the single soul, to short narrative prose poems and traditional lyrics, Wright revels in the compensatory power of language, observing the daytime headlights following a hearse, or the wind, “blessing one by one the unlighted buds of the backbent peach tree’s unnoted return.”\u003cp\u003eFranz Wright’s most recent works include \u003ci\u003eKindertotenwald\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Wheeling Motel\u003c\/i\u003e. His collection \u003ci\u003eWalking to Martha’s Vineyard\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004, and he has also been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Whiting Fellowship, among other honors. Wright lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEAVE ME HIDDEN\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I was having trouble deciding\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e which to watch: Night\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e of the Living Bloggers, or\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Attack of the Neck-Brace People.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the end I just went for a walk.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the woods I stopped wondering why\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e of all trees\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e this one: my hand\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e pressed to fissures\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e and ridges of\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e bark’s hugely magnified\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e fingerprint, forehead\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e resting against it\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e finally, feeling\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e distinctly\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e a heartbeat, vast, silently\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e booming there deep in\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e my hidden leaves, blessed\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e motherworld, personal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e underworld, thank you\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e thank you.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LAMP\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Evening street of midnight blue with here and there a lighted window. Of the at home, or the possibly not. Concentrically into the air whose blue sphere gradually gives way to pure lethal space, wave after wave of a pale cadmium yellow expanding into emptiness and past the blood-brain barrier. Lamp manufactured unwittingly in the image of its maker the mind, which goes on emitting dim rays from its frail bulb of skull, from its insignificant and evidently random sector of an infinite place all its own; mind illuminating not much: seen, say, from its own frozen and excommunicated Pluto, it is nearly indistinguishable from any other. All minds are pretty much the same, they’ll tell you so themselves, but secretly each is devoted to the conviction that it is irreparably different from all the rest—­in fact, it is this in which they are most fundamentally alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301977510117,"sku":"NP9780375712159","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375712159.jpg?v=1767726606","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/f-isbn-9780375712159","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}