Entry in an Unknown Hand

by Franz Wright

Overview

A collection of poetry by Franz Wright.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887480782
Publisher:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

FRANZ WRIGHT was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1953. He has traveled widely and lived in Europe and nearly every part of the United States. His books of poetry are Tapping the White Cane of Solitude (1976), The Earth Without You (1980), 8 Poems (1982), The One Whose Eyes Open When You Close Your Eyes (1982) and Going North in Winter (1986). His translations include Jarmila. Flies: 10 Prose poems of Erica Pedretti (1976), Rilke’s The Life of Mary (1980), a selection from Rilke’s uncollected poems and fragments, The Unknown Rilke (1983) and a selection versions based on poems by Rene Char, No Siege is Absolute (1984). In 1983 he was a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and in 1985 he was awarded a writing grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently teaches at Emerson College in Boston and lives in Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

Untitled • Winter: Twilight & Dawn • Rooms • The Crawdad • Joseph Come Back As the Dusk (1950-1982) • The Words • To the Hawk • Audience • Alcohol • At the End of the Untraveled Road Vermont Cemetery • Morning Arrives • North Country Entries • Birthday • The Note • The Talk • Ill Lit • Word From Home • Entry in an Unknown Hand • Duration No Longer or Not Yet Look Into Its Eyes • Biography • The Day • Writing at Night • There • Poem • A Day Comes • Rilke: Three Discarded Fragments • The Street • Written at 20 • My Work • Coordinates • Waiting Up • Guests • Winter Entries • Going North in Winter Notes

What People are Saying About This

Denis Johnson

“These poems break me, they’re like tiny jewels shaped by blunt, ruined fingers—miraculous gifts.”