{"product_id":"short-history-of-the-shadow-poems","title":"Short History of the Shadow: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuminous new poems from one who \"has long been a poet of gorgeous description\" --William Logan, \u003ci\u003eThe New Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLandscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't just do something, sit there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd so I have, so I have, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e the seasons curling around me like smoke, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.\u003c\/i\u003e--from \"Body and Soul II\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the gathering, in \u003ci\u003eNegative Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, of his \"Appalachian Book of the Dead,\" a trilogy of trilogies hailed \"among the great long poems of the century\" (James Longenbach, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e). In \u003ci\u003eA Short History of the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, Wright's return to the landscapes of his early work finds his art resilient in a world haunted by death and the dead.","brand":"Charles Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793361567786,"sku":"9780374528799","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/short-history-of-the-shadow-poems-6441963.jpg?v=1762149765","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/short-history-of-the-shadow-poems","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}