{"product_id":"wheeling-motel-isbn-9780375711473","title":"Wheeling Motel","description":"In his tenth collection of poetry, Franz Wright gives us an exquisite book of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had “the gift of impermanence \/ so I would be ready, \/ accompanied \/ by a rage to prove them wrong \/ . . . and that I too was worthy of love.” This rage comes coupled with the poet’s own brand of love, what he calls “one \/ strange alone \/ heart’s wish \/ to help all \/ hearts.” Poetry is indeed Wright’s help, and he delivers it to us with a wry sense of the daily in America: in his wonderfully local relationship to God (whom he encounters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows of Walden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of the title poem, on the banks of the great Ohio River, where “Tammy Wynette’s on the marquee” and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, “examining the tear on a dead face.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eWheeling Motel,\u003c\/i\u003e Wright’s poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, and with his own combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy.“These new poems refract the light of the poet’s insightful, humorous, and often humble gaze in ways that are surprising and rewarding.” —\u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Uningratiating, bumptiously witty . . . and routinely surprising.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eFranz Wright’s recent works include \u003ci\u003eEarlier Poems, God’s Silence, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Beforelife \u003c\/i\u003e (a finalist for the Pulitzer\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePrize). In 2004 his \u003ci\u003eWalking to Martha’s Vineyard \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePulitzer Prize. He has been the recipient of two National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eEndowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWhiting Fellowship, and the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eamong other honors. He currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewith his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eOehlkers Wright.\u003ci\u003eWheeling Motel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vast waters flow past its backyard.\u003cbr\u003eYou can purchase a six- pack in bars!\u003cbr\u003eTammy Wynette’s on the marquee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea block down. It’s twenty- five years ago:\u003cbr\u003eyou went to death, I to life, and\u003cbr\u003ewhich was luckier God only knows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere’s this line in an unpublished poem of yours.\u003cbr\u003eThe river is like that,\u003cbr\u003ea blind familiar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wind will die down when I say so;\u003cbr\u003ethe leaden and lessening light on\u003cbr\u003ethe current.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen the moon will rise\u003cbr\u003elike the word reconciliation,\u003cbr\u003elike Walt Whitman examining the tear on a dead face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDay One\u003cbr\u003eGood morning class. Today\u003cbr\u003ewe’re going to be discussing\u003cbr\u003ethe deplorable adventures\u003cbr\u003eof Franz Wright and his gory flute.\u003cbr\u003eJust kidding. The topic this morning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eis an unparaphrasable logic constructed\u003cbr\u003efrom parallelisms and images\u003cbr\u003eand held together, on\u003cbr\u003eoccasion, by nothing\u003cbr\u003ebut the magical non sequitur—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebut the hell with that.\u003cbr\u003eWe should really examine\u003cbr\u003eyour life, the one you bought,\u003cbr\u003eand what happened when you got home\u003cbr\u003eand attempted to assemble it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethat disfiguring explosion\u003cbr\u003eno one witnessed, no one heard,\u003cbr\u003ewhich you yourself cannot recall,\u003cbr\u003eand by whose unimaginable light you seek\u003cbr\u003eto write the name of beauty.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305053540581,"sku":"NP9780375711473","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375711473.jpg?v=1767743941","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/wheeling-motel-isbn-9780375711473","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}