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	James Wright
		James Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio two years before the American stock market crash of 1929 to a father who worked in a glass factory and a mother who worked in laundry.
		Wright then joined the army and was stationed in Japan during the American occupation of that country.
		Wright's early poetry is relatively conventional, in form and meter, especially compared with his later, looser, poetry.
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	American poet, James Wright's poetry and biograghpy
		James Arlington Wright was born on December 13,1927, in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
		Wright's whole life was aimed at leaving the small Ohio city and avoiding his father's fate of factory work.
		Wright, with a Fulbright grant, took his wife to Vienna were he studied at the University of Vienna.
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	James Wright (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980), was one of the most beloved American poets of the second half of the 20th century.
		Technically, Wright was an innovator, especially in the use of his titles, first lines, and last lines, which he used to great dramatic effect in defense of the lives of the disenfranchised.
		Wright's son Franz Wright is also a poet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Wright_(poet) (1050 words)

	National Poetry Month: A rhyme and reason for celebrating poetry
		But Wright had a love-hate relationship with "that town," a working-class place where his family and neighbors struggled with the poverty of the Depression and where Wright came to know the stories of personal failures and tragedy that are common in the rough and tumble of industrial America.
		James Wright drew upon the landscape of his hometown of Martins Ferry, an industrial town between the river and the hills of Ohio.
		Wright's talent to turn this dreary, tawdry vision of rundown Wheeling into an image of rebirth found in the water of the Ohio River is plain, as is his own dark view of his native land.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000409wright1.asp (1899 words)

	The Anniston Star - The clarifying vision of James Wright
		Wright was among that most influential group of poets now termed “mid-twentieth century” who began as a formalists, writing metered verse, and then broke with tradition to explore an “open form,” the way a line of poetry can move, following the natural patterns of the speaker’s voice with the emotional currents of the poet’s heart.
		But after years of living with his work, I realize that James Wright’s moments of personal darkness, struggles with alcoholism and depression, bouts of heartsick loneliness, and the realization of the terrible waste of American cities were the crucible through which he worked toward beauty.
		In the last 10 years of his life, Wright began traveling in France and Italy with Anne, and as she points out in her introduction, “It was then that the darkness in his poems became infused with the light of Italy and France.” I think he was always moving toward this light.
	www.dailyhome.com /entertainment/2005/as-books-0918-0-5i16s1115.htm (834 words)

	Symposium on the Work of Franz Wright
		Wright has a destination that he intends to work toward, slowly and steadily, even if it is ultimately impossible to reach.
		Wright’s tendency to look back as a way of moving forward is not limited to his own poems.
		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.
	www.webdelsol.com /WDSRB/WDRBMarks2.htm (1598 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - James Wright
		James Arlington Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, on December 13, 1927.
		The poverty and human suffering Wright witnessed as a child profoundly influenced his writing and he used his poetry as a mode to discuss his political and social concerns.
		James Wright was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1971, and the following year his Collected Poems received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/73 (417 words)

	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)

	WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors \| James Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
		James Wright escaped this world too soon, at the age of 52.
		The annual festival has become remedy to another of the tragedies of Wright’s life – that his reputation as poet was better known and recognized nationally and internationally than it was in his own home town.
	www.ohioana-authors.org /wright/index.php (317 words)

	GREAT POET, JAMES WRIGHT'S POETRY AND WORKS
		In one letter to a fellow poet he spoke of denying the darker and wilder side of himself for the sake of subsisting on mere comfort--both academic and poetic (Hall xxix).
		James and Annie were good for each other, as she supported his poetry and tamed down his drinking.
		James would write back to friends in the U.S. of his early mornings spent writing his new book of poems; letters written with vigor and new found life.
	www.angelfire.com /co/gregorystuff/biography.html (673 words)

	Wright, James Criticism and Essays
		Wright is regarded as one of the finest poets in a generation of many first-rate poets, yet his career was shaped by his doubts about his poetic identity that simultaneously nurtured and tortured him.
		Bly helped Wright through a period of gloom and doubt and encouraged his transition from what Wright called the “old” poetry of formal metrics, in which he had begun to feel trapped, to a poetry of common speech, depth imagery, intuitive connection, and personal involvement.
		Among his many honors, Wright was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1964 and 1978, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature in 1959, an Academy of American Poets fellowship in 1971, the Melville Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1972, and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1972.
	www.enotes.com /poetry-criticism/wright-james (821 words)

	"A KICK IN THE HEAD" by Michael Finley
		And I was so fortunate to have the American poet James Wright, if not as an outright mentor, then as an abiding example of what words could do, and as a personal friend.
		And Elizabeth was James Wright's English teacher in high school, and for a brief period, his legal guardian.
		James and his wife Annie would be there, and I would have a chance to meet them.
	www.mfinley.com /tumor/bt-james-wright.htm (1753 words)

	James Wright (poet) Summary
		Often remembered as one of the strongest of post-World War II American poets, James Wright was one of a group of young writers who, after establishing themselves with early books of prosodically conservative poetry, broke away from the mainstream traditi...
		James Arlington Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
		James Arlington Wright(December 3, 1927 – March 25, 1980), was one of the most beloved American poets of the second half of the 20th century.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Wright_(poet) (247 words)

	"Future Shoes" by Michael Finley
		So it was with such regret, in 1980, that I snatched an AP report from the teletype machine at the newspaper I worked for, and read that James Wright had succumbed to cancer of the tongue in New York.
		Wright was the sort of poet who could, with a false turn here or there, have wound up as one of our poet suicides.
		Wright was part of the confessional school, but he was bigger than it.
	www.mfinley.com /articles/jameswright.htm (1950 words)

	Literary Manuscripts Collections
		James Arlington Wright, born in 1927 in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, taught in the English Department at the University of Minnesota from 1957 to 1963 and received subsequent appointments at Macalester College (St. Paul) and Hunter College (New York City).
		Wright was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1971 and received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his Collected Poems in 1972.
		These and the papers of the poets and writers are part of the Upper Midwest Literary Archives, formed in 2001 to acquire and preserve the written records of small presses and literary figures from Minnesota and the Dakotas.
	special.lib.umn.edu /manuscripts/literary.html (1110 words)

	James Wright (1927-1980)
		Another strategy might be to consider Wright as a social poet addressing American society in the 1960s and 1970s.
		A typical theme explored in Wright's poetry is rural America versus the modern urban America of the middle class with its wealth, political power, and control over the oppressed.
		The poet is located at the farm of a friend; he is recumbent in a hammock.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wrightjs.html (867 words)

	UPNE - The Branch Will Not Break: James Wright
		JAMES WRIGHT was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1927.
		He was well known for his translations of such Spanish poets as Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo and for his poems about the Midwest.
		James Wright died on March 26, 1980, at the age of 52.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-1018-1.html (108 words)

	James Wright: Biographical Sketch
		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 fellowship.
		During these difficult years, Wright entered into a friendship with Robert Bly, a poet who had been struggling to find his own voice after a Harvard education and an MFA degree from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
		Wright’s third book, which Wesleyan had accepted under the title Amenities of Stone, was entirely recast by Wright during this period.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/j_wright/bio.htm (549 words)

	Amazon.com: Above the River: The Complete Poems: Books: James Wright,Donald Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James Wright started as a formalist (not my favored style) hailing structure and rhyme sometimes at the expense of meaning and language (disclaimer...one man's humble opinion belies a personal taste and no two taste buds seem the same).
		James Wright was of course one of the 20th century's great master poets.
		James Wright's mastery of the traditional formal elements of poetry coupled with his contemporary and timeless themes makes his collection of poetry one of the best I have ever read.
	www.amazon.com /Above-River-Complete-James-Wright/dp/0374522820 (1820 words)

	WAG: James Dickey's Crux
		While he built his reputation in the 1950s and 1960s as a widely published poet and is today known primarily for his surprisingly poetic novel, Deliverance, Dickey was a decidedly prosaic letter writer.
		Whether you agree with Dickey's largely negative opinions of other contemporary poets (or can stomach his high opinion of his own worth), his swaggering, streetfighting style is great fun.
		Indeed, four days after firing off that salvo, he sent Wright a letter in which he accepted Wright's apology and extended one of his own, adding "Before I go any further, do, please, let me say that you are entirely too hard on yourself.
	www.thewag.net /books/dickey.htm (757 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.
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	Powell's Books - God's Silence by Franz Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		And as with Walking, the poet's father, mid-century poet James Wright, looms large, as absence and as towering presence.
		Franz Wright was born in Vienna in 1953 and grew up in the Northwest, the Midwest, and Northern California.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-1400043514-0 (544 words)

	Amazon.com: Selected Poems: Books: James Wright,Anne Wright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		More than any other poet of his generation, James Wright spoke to the great sadness and hope that are inextricable from the iconography of America: its rail yards, rivers, cities, and once vast natural beauty.
		Among 20th century poets Wright stands as singular in his evocation of pathos without heavy-handed sentiment, his use of clear language without being predictable, and his imagery which loves the "things" of the world without being objective or cold.
		Anne Wright's foreward is also a great asset, as it briefly shows some of the process into making a selected volume, given both her lack of experience as an editor and her emotional connection to the poems.
	www.amazon.com /Selected-Poems-James-Wright/dp/0374529027 (1201 words)

	The Infography about James Wright (1927-1980)
		The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is American poet James Wright.
		Stein, Kevin J. James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man. Ohio University Press, 1988.
		Four Poets and the Emotive Imagination: Robert Bly, James Wright, Louis Simpson, and William Stafford.
	www.infography.com /content/254920499518.html (516 words)

	STANDARDS Book Review: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
		Premier poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright shared a personal admiration for one another's work, as well as a kinship developed through shared experiences of their individual employment as lecturers in the field of U.S. Arts and Letters, and their struggles with health and family matters.
		In December of the same year, Wright sent a letter advising Silko that he had learned he had cancer, which would involve "radical surgery in the throat." By mid-January of the new year, Wright was hospitalized with terminal cancer of the tongue.
		Upon receiving the first news, Silko wrote that her maternal grandfather had undergone the same surgery, and encouraged Wright: "You will manage the part about your voice because your voice was never sound alone.
	www.colorado.edu /journals/standards/V6N2Pride/REVIEWS/silkowright.html (950 words)

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		James Arlington Wright was born in 1927 in Martin's Ferry, Ohio.
		Wright taught in the English Department at the University of Minnesota from 1957 to 1963 and received subsequent appointments at Macalester College (St. Paul) and Hunter College (New York City).
		Wright was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1971 and received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for his
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	Wright, James - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Susanna Wright's "The Grove": a philosophic exchange with James Logan.
		James Wright, longtime judge, dies: EX-FOOTBALL PLAYER WON PRAISE FROM COLLEAGUES
		OPA-LOCKA: Chief awarded 4-year deal: The Opa-locka City Commission approved a controversial contract for Police Chief James Wright, but not without strong opposition.
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