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Loading... Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (original 2011; edition 2011)by Charles Wright (Author) jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |   Would silence the Silence and all that, That words were the Word, That language could lead us inexplicably to grace, As though it were geographical. I used to think these things when I was young. I still do. I didn't care for the early sections, the winnowed caprice of Black Zodiac wasn't as present, filtered. The author's arc of memory and nature's symphony kept my attention. There was an ultimate reward. A vision of Kafka, one who is offered soft cheese and bread and then leaves as a spring sunbeam is an arresting image. The Carter Family as memento mori. Dr. Burton would be content. Each image offers an idea or an association. Wright measures mortality in a veritable book of snow. Each step ephemeral. (  ) jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 | |
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Would silence the Silence and all that,
That words were the Word,
That language could lead us inexplicably to grace,
As though it were geographical.
I used to think these things when I was young.
I still do.
I didn't care for the early sections, the winnowed caprice of Black Zodiac wasn't as present, filtered. The author's arc of memory and nature's symphony kept my attention. There was an ultimate reward.
A vision of Kafka, one who is offered soft cheese and bread and then leaves as a spring sunbeam is an arresting image. The Carter Family as memento mori. Dr. Burton would be content. Each image offers an idea or an association. Wright measures mortality in a veritable book of snow. Each step ephemeral. (