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James Wright
(1927 - 1980)
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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 fellowshi .. .. more >>
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1     A Blessing
2     A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack
3     A Poem About George Doty in the Death House
4     A Winter Daybreak Above Vence
5     As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor
6     At the Executed Murderer's Grave
7     Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
8     Beginning
9     Bologna: A Poem About Gold
10     Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me
11     Fear Is What Quickens Me
12     Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium
13     Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960
14     Hook
15     In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems
16     In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned
17     Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
18     May Morning
19     Northern Pike
20     On the Skeleton of a Hound
21     Outside Fargo, North Dakota
22     Rip
23     Saint Judas
24     Small Frogs Killed On The Highway
25     The Jewel
 

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