Above the River: Complete Poems

New York and Middletown: Farrar Straus and Giroux and Wesleyan University Press, 1990.

Price: $85.00

Softcover. Uncorrected Proof. Slight smudge front wrap,and a bit of sunning on the rear wrap and spine, else near fine in wrappers.

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Item #90651 Above the River: Complete Poems. James WRIGHT.

James Wright
birth name: James Wright
born: 12/13/1927
died: 3/25/1980

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American poet of the postmodern era who wrote about sorrow, salvation, and self-revelation, often drawing on his native Ohio River valley for images of nature and industry. In 1972 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems (1971). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore