{"product_id":"axe-in-blossom-last-poems-fragments","title":"Axe in Blossom: Last Poems \u0026 Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize winner’s final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His hands strip poetry to its nub.” —Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading [Wright] is like walking through a plate-glass window on purpose. . . . The shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking.” —Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My death is in the second drawer,” writes Franz Wright. “While you’re standing there, would you mind getting me one?” It is a thrill to be back in these cadences, in his world of exquisite solitude, as he ponders becoming a ghost and returning to a childhood room where, he says, “I won’t have written any of it. \/ I will have back the rights \/ of anonymity,” and there is nothing left that anyone can take from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWright’s significant themes shine forth: radical acceptance of his own pain, mental illness, and loss; his belief in the poem’s ability to rhyme with the mysteries of our worldly suffering; his nearly surreal vision of Christian grace. But most powerful for readers will be the tender force of his imagery—the “green vesperal rain at the screen,” the “long Jeffersonian \/ $2-bill- \/ tinted twilight”—and, as he invites us to join him in his nicatorium, the smoking-porch of recovering addicts, the joy of finding this black-humorous voice still alive on the page to meet us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Cranford Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48573684809885,"sku":"9780307962058","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9218\/0125\/files\/9780307962058.jpg?v=1783178151","url":"https:\/\/thecranfordbookstore.com\/products\/axe-in-blossom-last-poems-fragments","provider":"The Cranford Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}