0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies

Buy Now

One Big Self (Paperback, Revised ed.) Loot Price: R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
You Save: R26 (7%)

One Big Self (Paperback, Revised ed.)

C. D Wright

 (sign in to rate)
List price R391 Loot Price R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 You Save R26 (7%)

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle, which she uses to evoke the haunted quality of our carnal existence."-The New Yorker

Inspired by numerous visits inside Louisiana state prisons-where MacArthur Fellow C.D. Wright served as a "factotum" for a portrait photographer-One Big Self bears witness to incarcerated men and women and speaks to the psychic toll of protracted time passed in constricted space. It is a riveting mosaic of distinct voices, epistolary pieces, elements from a moralistic board game, road signage, prison data, inmate correspondence, and "counts" of things-from baby's teeth to chigger bites:

Count your folding money Count the times you said you wouldn't go back Count your debts Count the roaches when the light comes on Count your kids after the housefire

One Big Self-originally published as a large-format limited edition that featured photographs and text-was selected by The New York Times and The Village Voice as a notable book of the year. This edition features the poem exclusively.

C.D. Wright is the author of ten books of poetry, including several collaborations with photographer Deborah Luster. She is a professor at Brown University.

General

Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2023
First published: April 2007
Authors: C. D Wright
Dimensions: 240 x 178 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 96
Edition: Revised ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-258-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-55659-258-2
Barcode: 9781556592584

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Letters Of Alchemy
Shakeela Kingzley Paperback R304 Discovery Miles 3 040
Our Words, Our Worlds - Writing On Black…
Makhosazana Xaba Paperback R315 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910
Years Of Fire And Ash - South African…
Wamuwi Mbao Paperback R260 R232 Discovery Miles 2 320
The Sun And Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur Paperback  (5)
R472 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970
The Hill We Climb - An Inaugural Poem
Amanda Gorman Hardcover R328 Discovery Miles 3 280
Knapsekerels
Pieter Fourie Paperback R175 R162 Discovery Miles 1 620
In A Free State - A Music
P.R. Anderson Paperback R209 Discovery Miles 2 090
Loss - Poems To Better Weather The Many…
Donna Ashworth Hardcover  (1)
R250 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270
Life - Poems To Help Navigate Life's…
Donna Ashworth Hardcover R250 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270
Olga Kirsch - A Life In Poetry
Egonne Roth Paperback R275 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540
Die Maan Is Swart - Gedigte Van Adam…
Adam Small, Ronelda Kamfer Paperback  (1)
R230 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990
What The Moon Gave Her
Christi Steyn Paperback R295 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640

See more

Partners