{"product_id":"axe-in-blossom-last-poems-fragments","title":"Axe in Blossom: Last Poems \u0026 Fragments","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize winner's final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"His hands strip poetry to its nub.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading [Wright] is like walking through a plate-glass window on purpose. . . . The shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking.\"\u003ci\u003e --Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"My death is in the second drawer,\" writes Franz Wright. \"While you're standing there, would you mind getting me one?\" It is a thrill to be back in these cadences, in his world of exquisite solitude, as he ponders becoming a ghost and returning to a childhood room where, he says, \"I won't have written any of it. \/ I will have back the rights \/ of anonymity,\" and there is nothing left that anyone can take from him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWright's significant themes shine forth: radical acceptance of his own pain, mental illness, and loss; his belief in the poem's ability to rhyme with the mysteries of our worldly suffering; his nearly surreal vision of Christian grace. But most powerful for readers will be the tender force of his imagery--the \"green vesperal rain at the screen,\" the \"long Jeffersonian \/ $2-bill- \/ tinted twilight\"--and, as he invites us to join him in his nicatorium, the smoking-porch of recovering addicts, the joy of finding this black-humorous voice still alive on the page to meet us.","brand":"Franz Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44515688316970,"sku":"9780307962058","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_817a737f-7048-4174-9cdf-77baf14f2b9d.jpg?v=1782695782","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/axe-in-blossom-last-poems-fragments","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}