The One Whose Eyes Open When You Close Your Eyes
Roslindale, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1982.
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Slight rubbing to the boards, and a trifle foxed on the foredge, still just about fine in a very lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. One of 400 hardcover copies of a total edition of 1000, of which 50 were numbered and signed by the author. Although this copy is unnumbered it bears a warm and long Inscription from Wright in the year of publication, to another poet and close personal friend, about poetry and creating poems.
Item #93980
ISBN: 0913219347
Franz Wright
birth name: Franz Wright
born: 3/18/1953
Biography
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Franz Wright is noted for his verse that often tackles somber themes, including alcoholism, drug abuse, and mental illness, as well as themes of repentance, self discovery, and spirituality. Before he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, Wright once told CA: "I write (and have done so since writing first offered itself to me at age fifteen or so) primarily for personal pleasure. In fact, I cannot recall ever having been genuinely happy except during periods of time when I seemed to be writing well, for illumination and self-transformation. This is not to say I have no ambition. Occasionally (actually rather often over the years) I publish my work. I doubt if anyone notices at all, which is perfectly all right with me." - from Contemporary Authors Onlinemore