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LEAVE ME HIDDEN by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright

48 pages
Publication Date: 2010

ISBN 10: 1934851108
ISBN 13: 978 1934851104

Poets speak metaphorically of poets of previous generations as their spiritual and artistic parents or grandparents. For Franz Wright, this is literally true: his father, James Wright, was one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. In this book Franz Wright is more intimate than ever before. His collection is a description of the struggle with the demons associated with following in the lineage of a great poet. We can find more of Wright himself in this collection, more of his identity, a grown up man who finally conquers the stigma of living in the shadow of his father.
 
The memories of James Wright are clear and vivid but not a torment. In poems like: Recurring Dream, Admonitions To Self, The Future, Untitled Poem In Three Parts, Franz Wright steps into a new phase of his own writing, he is more accessible to the reader and lets us pick and choose among his hopes and reflections. He alternates between memories of his family and present experiences  in a rental apartment. He reveals the splendor and grandiosity of a friendship in the short poem The Future where we find a generous man taking care of a fallen friend.

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Franz Wright, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is the son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. The late James Wright won the award in 1972.

Born in Vienna, Franz Wright is the author of fourteen collections of poetry. Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Knopf 2003) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His collections, God’s Silence and Earlier Poems were published by Knopf in 2006 & 2007, with his newest book, Wheeling Motel, due out fall 2009, also from Knopf. Wright’s other books include The Beforelife (2001), Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), Rorschach Test (1995), The Night World and the Word Night (1993), and Midnight Postscript (1993). Mr. Wright has also translated poems by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He has received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wright has taught in many colleges and universities, including Emerson College and the University of Arkansas. He is currently the writer-in-residence at Brandeis. He has also worked in a mental health clinic in Lexington, Massachusetts, and as a volunteer at the Center for Grieving Children.