Charles Wright and an Examination of his life Year after year, decade after decade, Charles Wright has had a pencil in hand, a piece of paper in front of him, as he's scribbled some of the most graceful sentences and elegant lines in contemporary poetry. Producing a bounty of poems as durable as a diamond, each with the dazzling light of reflection as if from the cut and polished surface of a diamond's facet. Thankfully, …
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…the events and experiences in his own life: "I have no pubic, or social, aspirations in my work. All aspirations are private, a locating and defining out of my own life. I wouldn't presume to speak for anyone else,"(Charles Wright). Nevertheless, for a long time now, Wright's precise poems have spoken to many readers and for many of them the exactness of his observations has put into words the very emotions they have felt.