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| | The Anniston Star - The clarifying vision of James Wright |
 | | 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. |
| | 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. |
| | 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. |
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