Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Poet C.D. Wright Visits UT Campus
C.D. Wright is a poet who defies labels. Over a distinguished career and twelve published volumes of poetry, prose, and a slippery mix of the two, she has continually reinvented herself.
Variously described as narrative, experimental, Southern, deeply personal, and fiercely political, Wright credits her roots in the Arkansas Ozarks for her resistance to joining a single, identifying “ism” of the poetry world—she was born to a stubborn independence. And the breadth of her range is as great as the remove between
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