C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental
writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she
continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her
poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in
the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Long admired for the honed
ferocity of her vision, she wrote with a distinctive Southern
accent and a cinematic eye, cut with a secular wit that only
slightly tempers her exigency. The resulting poems are hypnotic
documentaries that offer what she called 'a once-and-for-all thing,
opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning'. Like Something Flying
Backwards was the first UK edition of her work, and presents a wide
range of her lyrics, narratives, prose poems and odes. Based on
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (2003), a finalist for the
Griffin Poetry Prize, its selection was expanded to include more
later work as well as new poems not then published in book form in
the US, and the complete text of her book-length poem, Deepstep
Come Shining.
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