Rebellious and fiercely lyrical, the poems of C.D. Wright incorporates elements of disjunction and odd juxtaposition in their exploration of unfolding context. “In my book,” she writes, “poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.”
ISBN: 9781556590924
Format: Paperback
Don’t touch that dial…
Don’t touch that dial. Here’s the rest of the story: These three ladies they had been into all manner of wrongdoing. They were wearing the evil one’s varsity jacket. They were hot for god and they were on fire. That night they were thrown to the ground under the power. That night the glory cloud filled the church. The prayer line stayed open that night. A real hard light, sharp, cold as a nail, split right through the boards. Angels went to banging around in the rafters like barn swallows. We’ll pick up at the next chapter, dearly beloveds…
Reviews
“Deepstep Come Shining is an incredible narrative… A brilliant, beautiful book.” —Judges’ citation, Paterson Poetry Prize
“This unusual verse novel [is] an unholy marriage of Kerouac’s bop prosody and Flannery O’Connor’s Southern gothic sensibility.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Expertly elliptical phrasings, and an uncounterfeitable, generous feel for real people, bodies and places, have lately made Wright one of America’s oddest, best and most appealing poets.” —Publishers Weekly