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	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Franz Wright
		Franz Wright, the son of the poet James Wright, was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and northern California.
		Wright negotiates the precarious transition from illness to health in a state of skeptical rapture, discovering along the way the exhilaration of love--both divine and human--and finding that even the most battered consciousness can be good company.
		Charles Simic has characterized him as a poetic miniaturist, whose "secret ambition is to write an epic on the inside of a matchbook cover." Time and again, Wright turns on a dime in a few brief lines, exposing the dark comedy and poignancy of his heightened perception.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/franzwright (272 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Out of the darkness
		WALTHAM -- For the poet Franz Wright, the art that came out for 25 years was mixed with the destructiveness that went in.
		Deeper darkness lay ahead, on the way to the brighter place Wright is in now: sober, married, writing poems, busy with volunteer work, spiritually centered, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his collection "Walking to Martha's Vineyard." It is a distinction he shares with his father.
		She remarried when Franz was 11, after a six-week courtship, and Wright said his stepfather was more violent than his father.
	boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/05/18/out_of_the_darkness (467 words)

	The Beforelife by Franz Wright - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		When Franz Wright is at his best (which is not infrequently) his poems will burn themselves onto the backs of your eyeballs.
		Wright's poems are confessional, yes, but hardly the transparent bad-bad-daddy poems of the American creative writing workshop.
		As Wright himself has said of his own poetry, its mission lies in "giving a voice to conditions or states of mind normally associated with speechlessness." Like their ancestors the haiku, these poems barely stave off the onslaught of the infinite, the white of the page all but swallowing these fortune-cookie misfortunes.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001spring/fwright.shtml (1069 words)

	Symposium on the Work of Franz Wright
		Franz Wright is a poet with an especially weighty past.
		James Wright is speaking to his muse, but she is, at least in part, a real person: Jenny, a prostitute identified earlier in the poem, who has drowned herself in the Ohio River.
		Franz Wright ends “Fathers” by saying, “that is how cold it was // and how often I walked down to the edge of the actual / river to join you” (13).
	webdelsol.com /WDSRB/WDRBMarks2.htm (1598 words)

	Ill Lit by Franz Wright - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Ill Lit, the title of Franz Wright's new and selected poems, is just such a sign, its crippled shorthand a harbinger of dark happenings within.
		To read the themes of self-destruction in his work as mere dysfunction, or mere catharsis, is to deny Wright his ultimate ambition: writing his way back from isolation, back from illness, back from the self to the absence that preceded us, and the silence that must follow.
		Wright is, in Denis Johnson's estimation, "the only true poet" in America today; Ill Lit is a fierce testament to the harrowing demands of such a vocation, as well as what Wright himself has described as its "mysterious / privilege and joy."
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1998winter/wright.shtml (793 words)

	Oberlin College News & Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Franz Wright '77 has won the Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha's Vineyard, a collection of haunting poems that explore life and death.
		"Franz Wright is one of the finest poets of his generation," writes poet Lucie Brock-Broido, author of Trouble in Mind (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004).
		Wright has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whitting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, among other honors.
	www.oberlin.edu /news-info/04apr/pulitzer.html (206 words)

	ILL LIT: Selected & New Poems (Field Poetry Series) (Field Poetry (Paperback)), Oberlin College Press, Franz Wright
		Franz Wright's Ill Lit brings together a substantial selection of poems from earlier volumes, some of them significantly revised by the author, and a group of twenty-one new poems, along with a selection of translations.
		A courageous writer who has, in his words, committed himself to the task of "giving a voice to conditions or states of mind normally associated with speechlessness," Franz Wright demonstrates here, again and again, his ability to make poems that are haunting, somber, and luminous.
		Franz Wright's "Ill Lit" is a challenging, alternately intellectual and poetic collection.
	allentech.net /techstore/item_0932440835.html (392 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Media / Out of the darkness
		James Wright also remarried, and moved to New York, and Franz remained close to him despite the early strife.
		Besides his church activities (he attends daily Mass) and work with community addiction-recovery groups, Wright works with mentally ill addicts at the Edinburg Center for Mental Health in Lexington and as a facilitator with 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old children at the Center for Grieving Children and Teenagers in Arlington.
		Wright's mother, Liberty Kovacs of Sacramento, Calif., a semiretired therapist (she studied family therapy after her divorce from James Wright), is elated both by the Pulitzer and her son's stablized life.
	boston.com /ae/media/articles/2004/05/18/out_of_the_darkness?mode=PF (2374 words)

	Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism/FRANZ WRIGHT: AN INTERVIEW
		In almost Kierkegaardian fashion, Wright's poems descend to the depths of human experience, to states of speechlessness in the face of madness and all-consuming fear.
		Wright's work has always been concerned with themes of speechlessness, of extreme experience and the difficulties of representing such experience in language, which is always inadequate when faced with reality.
		With this collection Wright proclaims his belief that poetry, that language, can speak to the magic of this world, to the transcendence that reveals itself not only at the extremes of experience but even in the most mundane of everyday details.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/margin/WrightQA.html (1935 words)

	paulguest: Franz Wright has lost his mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Apparently, Franz Wright has been involved in a squabble with William Logan who seems to have written a sort of low blow review of his book at The New Criterion.
		Now, I don't thik you could say anything too mean about Franz Wright's work, and actually saying nothing at all is probably the fittest response, but I hope Oppen sends Logan a threatening letter from beyond the grave.
		Logan may be that but Franz wrote this threatening Logan, imploring him to never be in the same room with him because he didn't want to kill him, etc. Stupid stuff.
	www.livejournal.com /users/paulguest/55902.html (465 words)

	NPR : Franz Wright, Poet and Muse
		Weekend Edition - Saturday, April 24, 2004 ·; Franz Wright, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is the son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
		Wright also discusses the importance of his work with the mentally ill. The poet went through his own battles with depression, alcoholism and drug abuse, and feels strongly that his experience can help those who feel isolated and alone in their illness, as he once did.
		Wright says his poetry was "the cure" for his depression.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1851833 (282 words)

	BigCityLit - New York Edition
		Wright's soul lives on, I had/have no wish to utter anything that might give discomfort to even the memory of my old mentor or to his relatives.
		It seems an image of a persona frightened that he may be powerless to prevent a regression into oblivion, (Franz Wright's poems make no secret of his stays in rehabilitation centers and mental institutions) and it is economical and effective--emblematic of struggle.
		Within his current limits and intentions, Franz Wright exhibits an ability to cope with the anxiety of influence and sense of belatedness it seems natural to assume his father's accomplishment must inspire.
	www.nycbigcitylit.com /may2001/contents/Essays.html (3287 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Franz Wright
		Franz Wright, the son of poet James Wright, was born in Vienna in 1953.
		Wright's most recent collections of poetry include Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) which received a Pulitzer Prize, The Beforelife (2001), Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), Rorschach Test (1995), The Night World and the Word Night (1993), and Midnight Postscript (1993).
		Wright has received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/519 (181 words)

	The New Yorker: Online Only: Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Poetry is in Franz Wright's blood: his father, James Wright (1927-80), was one of the most acclaimed poets of the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties.
		The younger Wright, born in 1953, is the author of thirteen books of poetry, the latest of which, "The Beforelife," was published earlier this year.
		FRANZ WRIGHT: For some reason, in the past couple of years I've experienced a stream of writing beyond anything I could possibly have imagined before.
	www.newyorker.com /online/content?010709on_onlineonly01 (2192 words)

	Amazon.com: Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wright is the kind of poet who, even during the height of what he would term "the poet's lonely fame", would often find himself in mental hospitals, jails, and rehabs.
		Franz Wright is a poet of great pathos, but also blissful transendance, and a candid sense of humor.
		Franz Wright has been down as low as one can go, and he reports back to the world with the grace and wonder of being alive, seeing evidence of spiritual rebirth all around him, or as he writes in the opening poem, "There is nothing but." May he continue to live well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375415181?v=glance (1646 words)

	Web Del Sol Review of Books: Symposium on Franz Wright's Work
		I have not slightest doubt that Franz Wright is such a voice for his generation.
		What surprises (and, frankly, gladdens) me about Wright’s work is his ability to be very humble and very arrogant at the same time—often in the same poem or line.
		But Franz Wright is no man’s apprentice; the form of prayer his poems take is undoubtedly his own.
	webdelsol.com /WDSRB/WDSRBKaminsky.htm (1119 words)

	Redemption found after great loss \| csmonitor.com
		When Franz Wright was awarded this year's Pulitzer, he won more than poetry's most prestigious honor.
		It would have been easier, as the title suggests, for Franz to walk across the water than to heal the wounds caused when James abandoned his young family.
		Franz sought solace in drugs and alcohol, and struggled with addiction for years.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0420/p16s03-bogn.htm (585 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Adam Zagajewski and Franz Wright
		Franz Wright's poetry is often dark, spare and preoccupied with abuse and alcohol addiction.
		The son of prominent American poet James Wright, Franz Wright began composing poems in his early teens.
		Wright has also published four books in translation of poetry by Rainer Marie Rilke, Erica Pedretti and Rene Char.
	www.albany.edu /writers.inst/zagajewski_wright.html (611 words)

	Playback St. Louis Review - Interview with Franz Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was in that month, and in these pages, when I presented “7 from 75,” a list of book recommendations to start off the new year.
		Of the seventh of these, Franz Wright’s Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Knopf), I wrote the following: “Wright’s poems are brief bursts of light and humor and pain and passion.
		Wright wrote to me via email early in the morning on Friday, April 16, from the University of Arkansas, where he is spending a semester teaching.
	www.playbackstl.com /Current/SH/wright.htm (910 words)

	The Beforelife by Franz Wright \| PopMatters Book Review
		Franz Wright, son of the poet James Wright, has been to the edge of sanity and back, and his new book, The Beforelife, chronicles his climb out of "a place of isolation and wordlessness."
		We begin to sense Wright's relationship with death — whether just fear or recognition of a fate averted — and it is sobering.
		The title of the book itself seems to suggest that the author is looking back on himself as another person, a kind of double use of the word in which he suggests both that his previous life is dead and that he has awakened to a greater perception of himself.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/b/beforelife.shtml (1063 words)

	Constant Critic Reviews \| Letters to the Editor
		It must be awful to be told that you aren't really up to your father's work, and it's true James Wright dealt with many wider and more worldly moral dilemmas and themes, but the really delightful thing about his son, Franz, is the delicate simplicity of Franz Wright's diction.
		I like the fact the Franz Wright just makes his own simple diction, and now that he has been given the Pulitzer, like his father, he may be satisfied enough to expand his themes.
		So, I'm happy for Franze Wright and happy for James Wright that his caring son has found salvation in the muse his father left to him.
	www.constantcritic.com /letters.cgi?date=05/16/2004/18:20&range=30 (580 words)

	Franz Wright Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Wright, already recognized as one of the leading poets of his generation, published more than a dozen books, including a volume of selected poems, Ill Lit: Selected and New Poems, and an expanded edition of translations entitled The Unknown Rilke.
		Wright’s style has been called spare and dark, haunted by subjects like abuse and alcohol addiction.
		Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Justice has called Wright a "terrific poet--never has any poet, anywhere, been so dark-minded and at the same time so almost playful, so childlike about it all," Justice said.
	www.oberlin.edu /newserv/01mar/franz_wright_release.html (287 words)

	Franz Wright, Poet
		Franz Wright is the author of thirteen collections of poetry; his most recent, Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Knopf 2003) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
		Franz Wright, son of the poet James Wright, began writing when he was very young.
		Welcome to hell.” James and Franz Wright are the only father and son to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
	www.blueflowerarts.com /fwright.html (377 words)

	Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR): Interview: Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright and Daniel Ahearn of the band Ill Lit ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Interview: Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright and Daniel Ahearn of the band Ill Lit discuss poetry and music
		Franz Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry this month, for his collection "Walking to Martha's Vineyard." The book begins with a poem called "Year One."
		FRANZ WRIGHT: (Reading from "Year One") `I was still standing on a northern corner, moonlit winter clouds the color of the desperation of wolves.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:97516904&refid=holomed_1 (231 words)

	Franz Wright (Bold Type Magazine)
		Bold Type's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes on Wright: "Two principles immediately emerge from his poems: a stormy independence in matters of spiritual development; and a reliance on the idea that greatness and beauty not only exist in the world but are attainable and worthwhile.
		The governing poetic conviction that emerges from the conjunction of these is that one must rely on hope of the sturdiest sort and bear forth a wisdom tempered by a firm knowledge of what has been lost in the acquisition of that wisdom."
		Read two poems from The Beforelife and an essay on Franz Wright.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0101/wright (100 words)

	Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism/INTRODUCING FRANZ WRIGHT
		Wright is a poet apart in his gifts and his courage."
		Franz Wright to be one of these, and I'm grateful that we have him among us."
		FROM THE inside back cover of The Beforelife: "Franz Wright, the son of the poet James Wright, was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and northern California.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/margin/Wright.html (385 words)

	Halley's Comment: Franz Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I heard Franz Wright read his poetry last night in Concord.
		He won the Pulitzer Prize for his recent collection, Walking To Martha's Vineyard.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	halleyscomment.blogspot.com /2004/10/franz-wright.html (914 words)

	Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright : Booksamillion.com (0375415181, Hardcover)
		In this radiant new collection, Franz Wright shares his regard for life in all its forms and his belief in the promise of blessing and renewal.
		As he watches the "Resurrection of the little apple tree outside / my window," he shakes off his fear of mortality, concluding "what death.
		As Wright overcomes a natural tendency toward loneliness and isolation, he gives voice to his hope for "the only animal that commits suicide," and, to our deep pleasure, he arrives at a place of gratitude that is grounded in the earth and its moods.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375415181 (127 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal
		Franz Wright won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest collection, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, which was published by Knopf in October 2003.
		The son of poet James Wright, he was born in Vienna in 1953.
		He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Whiting foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
	www.pshares.org /authors/authordetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=1684 (119 words)

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