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Jul 24, 2007 · 4.8 7 ratings. See all formats and editions. In Scar Tissue, the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Charles Wright not only investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality―"A thing is not an image"―but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture the natural world and the beings in it, although he ...
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Jul 25, 2006 · Scar Tissue is a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts the entire astonishing spectrum of existence" (Booklist). Show more. Genres Poetry. 73 pages, Hardcover. First published July 25, 2006. Book details & editions. About the author. Charles Wright. 195 books99 followers. Follow. Friends & Following.
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Jul 29, 2014 · The rain in its silver earrings against the oak trunks, The rain in its second skin. --from "Scar Tissue II". In his new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality--"thing is not an image"--but also reaffirms the project of attempting to describe, to capture ...
Sep 17, 2006 · At their best, Wright’s poems form a kind of metaphysical scar tissue; they are “sumptuous barricades” that enforce the separation of the transcendent and the concrete, but also provide an...
Mar 2, 2007 · Charles Wright: SCAR TISSUE. Reading Scar Tissue, Charles Wright’s seventeenth book of poetry, I am reminded how it appears almost impossible to consider any current individual collection of Wright’s poems without immediately placing the recent pieces into context with his past work.
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In Buffalo Yoga, and the books that follow, Wright’s central preoccupation is mortality, the passage of time, and the inevitability of death, usually his own. Scar Tissue (2006), which was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize, fittingly begins with a stock-taking piece called “Appalachian Farewell.”.
