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James Wright
(1927 - 1980)

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Born in 1927 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, one of the steel-producing towns strung out along the heavily-industrialized Upper Ohio River as it borders West Virginia and Pennsylvania, James Wright graduated with honors from Kenyon College in 1952 and studied in Vienna the next year on a Fulbright fellowshi .. .. more >>

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1		A Blessing
2		A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack
3		A Poem About George Doty in the Death House
4		A Winter Daybreak Above Vence
5		As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor
6		At the Executed Murderer's Grave
7		Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
8		Beginning
9		Bologna: A Poem About Gold
10		Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me
11		Fear Is What Quickens Me
12		Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium
13		Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960
14		Hook
15		In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems
16		In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned
17		Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
18		May Morning
19		Northern Pike
20		On the Skeleton of a Hound

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"Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom."
James Wright (1927-1980), U.S. poet. A Blessing (l. 19-24). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.

"All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love."
James Wright (1927-1980), U.S. poet. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (l. 6-8). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.

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Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - James Wright
Academy of American Poets site. Contains a biography (with photograph), links to other sites, and the texts of three poems: "Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry ...
http://www.poets.org/jwrig/

James Wright
From the online companion to the Oxford Modern American Poetry Anthology, this site contains a biography (with photographs) and criticism of several poems.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/j_wright/j_wright.htm

James Wright (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Each year, hundreds of writers gather to pay tribute at the James Wright Poetry Festival in Martin's Ferry. Wright's son Franz Wright is also a poet. ...
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James Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1986), British motorcycle speedway rider; James Wright (inventor), American creator of Silly Putty; James Wright (activist), veteran activist in the Spanish ...
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