Gods Silence
Gods Silence In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha's Vineyard. He shares his private rules for…
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Gods Silence
In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha's Vineyard. He shares his private rules for bus riding ("No eye contact: the eyes of the terrified / terrify"), and recalls, among other experiences, his first encounter with a shotgun, as an eight-year-old boy ("In a clearing in the cornstalks . . . Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God's Silence with "East Boston, 1996," a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility.
Throughout this volume, Wright continues his penetrating study of his own and our collective soul. it was suggested / that I fire / on that muttering family of crows"). He reaches a new level of acceptance as he intones the paradox "I have heard God's silence like the sun," and marvels at our