» James Wright http://saxifragepress.com Monthly Poetry/Fiction/Artist Features and OtherArtistic Endeavors Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:40:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://saxifragepress.com http://saxifragepress.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/SaxifragePress200px.jpg Poem of the Week, Aug. 17-30 http://saxifragepress.com/2009/08/poem-of-the-week-aug-17-30/ http://saxifragepress.com/2009/08/poem-of-the-week-aug-17-30/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:56:24 +0000 http://travismossotti.com/?p=424 james-wright

          ~James Wright, Two Citizens (FSG, 1973)

 

          If you hang out around this site long enough, you’re going to notice the recurrence of one mister James Wright.  He has a certain charisma and subtle charm that is hard to find anywhere else in poetry, and it’s my pleasure to keep posting examples.

 

          ~TM

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~James Wright, Shall We Gather at the River (Wesleyan, 1968)

 

Rodney Jones and I were talking about this poem the other day, and I told him how I’d lifted the image of “the red spider who is God” for my own purposes.  And so it goes in my poem: “Such was your grace.  I was nothing more than a tiny red spider tending to my own needs.”  It then occurred to me that if I were to draw a parallel between Wright’s spider and my own, my speaker has unwittingly become God (a tiny God filled with self-importance, but God nonetheless).  My speaker and I feel honored to be in positions of such eminent power.

 

          ~TM

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          ~ James Wright, The Branch Will Not Break (1963)

 

 

 

Why this poem is beautiful needs no rationale.  Enjoy.

 

          ~T.M.

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