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  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780375711466
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $49.99
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Earlier Poems




The haunting collection of poems that gathers the first four books of Pulitzer winner Franz Wright under one cover, where “fans old and new will find a feast amid famine” (Publishers Weekly), and discover how large this poet’s gift was from the start.

  • Published: 15 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9780375711466
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

Franz Wright

Franz Wright was born in Vienna, Austria in 1953 and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and northern California. His works include The Beforelife (2001), Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (2003), God’s Silence (2006), Earlier Poems (2007), Wheeling Motel (2009), Kindertotenwald (2011), and F (2013). He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, who was the son of the poet James Wright, died in 2015.

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