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Carolyn D. Wright

January 01, 1970

Carolyn D. Wright (January 6, 1949 – January 12, 2016) was an American poet.[1] She was a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island.

Carolyn D. Wright
Born
Carolyn Doris Wright

(1949-01-06)January 6, 1949
Mountain Home, Arkansas
DiedJanuary 12, 2016(2016-01-12) (aged 67)
Barrington, Rhode Island
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Memphis, University of Arkansas
Occupation(s)Poet, professor
Known forMacArthur Fellowship

Background edit

C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, to a chancery judge and a court reporter. She earned a BA in French from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) in 1971 and briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue an MFA from the University of Arkansas, which she received in 1976. Her poetry thesis was titled Alla Breve Loving.

In 1977, the publishing company founded by Frank Stanford, Lost Roads Publishers, published Wright's first collection, Room Rented by A Single Woman. After Stanford died in 1978, Wright took over Lost Roads, continuing its mission of publishing new poets and starting the practice of publishing translations. In 1979, she moved to San Francisco, where she met poet Forrest Gander. Wright and Gander married in 1983 and had a son, Brecht. The husband and wife were co-editors at Lost Roads until 2005.[2]

In 1981, Wright and Gander moved to Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, where she completed her third book of poems, Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues. In 1983, they moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she began teaching at Brown University as the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English.[3] Over the next 30 years, Wright won many major American literary prizes (including fellowships from the Lila Acheson Wallace, Guggenheim, Lannan, and MacArthur Foundations) while publishing one of the most eclectic bodies of poetic work of her generation. The cyclical erotic and tormented fragments of Just Whistle are as distinct from the compressed, sensual narratives of Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues as from the lyrical southern paeans of Further Adventures with You. Perhaps her most original and internationally influential publications are the book-length works Deepstep Come Shining, One Big Self, and One With Others. Each developed, in new directions, Wright's formally innovative and fundamentally ethical meditations on the South, on race relations, on incarceration, and on the lives of the unsung. Together, those books helped to define and extend the possibilities for documentary poetics in the twenty-first century. In 2013, Wright was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.[4] Stephanie Burt has described Wright as an Elliptical Poet,[5] but Burt did not use that description in an essay she published as a tribute to Wright just after Wright's death.[6] As Joel Brouwer has said, she "belongs to a school of exactly one."[7]

C.D. Wright died on January 12, 2016, six days after her 67th birthday.[8] Her brother, Warren Wright, reported that she "died peacefully in her sleep of thrombosis, a clot, after an overly long flight from Chile." At the time of her death, she was living in Barrington, Rhode Island.[9]

Poetry edit

Wright's poetry is rooted in a sense of place and time and often employs distinct voices in dialogue, particularly those of the American South. Her work is formally inventive and often documentary in spirit, in the sense that it honors those whose stories or voices might be lost, were it not for her own writing. Her diction mixes high and low to surprising effect, and her range of reference is both broad and deep, including phrases from other languages, allusions to other poems, and pieces of conversation. Her books include precisely distilled lyrics such as those collected in Tremble as well as book-length poems beginning with Just Whistle, her first collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster.[10]

In a 2001 interview with Kent Johnson, Wright said,

As to my own aesthetic associations—affiliations, sympathies—I have never belonged to a notable element of writers who identified with one another partly because I come from Arkansas, specifically that part of Arkansas known for its resistance-to-joining, a non-urban environment where readily identifiable groups and sub-groups are less likely to form.

In the same interview, she states,

The theoretically-driven San Francisco poets who were in cahoots with poets in New York and conversant with European vanguard movements—they provided me with a need to become critically aware of my back-home ways; sharpened me to a degree. I'm grateful for the exposure, the education. I am indebted to particular poets' work from that point in time, but I am not an intellectual in the sense that qualifies or requires me to belong to a manifestoed-group. And of course one comes to take some pride in one's own outsider status.[11]

Wright published literary maps of both Rhode Island and Arkansas.[12] Wright's later work includes String Light; Deepstep Come Shining, a book-length poem; and One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, another collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster. One Big Self: An Investigation contains just the poems. Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. One With Others mixes investigative journalism, history and poetry to explore homegrown civil rights incidents and the critical role her mentor, a brilliant and difficult woman, played in a little-known 1969 March Against Fear in her native Arkansas.[13] Shortly after Wright's death in January 2016, Copper Canyon Press published The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, a book of prosimetric essays, and ShallCross, a book of both short- and long-form poems.

Awards edit

 
John Reed, David Biespiel and Wright at the after party for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012

Works edit

This list of works has been taken mostly from C. D. Wright's entry at the Academy of American Poets web page titled "C. D. Wright".

  • 1977: Room Rented By A Single Woman (Lost Roads)
  • 1979: Terrorism (Lost Roads)
  • 1981: Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues (State University of New York Press)
  • 1986: Further Adventures with You (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
  • 1991: String Light (University of Georgia Press)
  • 1993: Just Whistle: A Valentine (Kelsey Street Press) - with photographs by Deborah Luster
  • 1996: Tremble (Ecco)
  • 1998: Deepstep Come Shining (Copper Canyon Press)
  • 2002: Steal Away: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press) [shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize]
  • 2003: One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms) – with photographs by Deborah Luster
  • 2005: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (Copper Canyon Press)
  • 2007: One Big Self: An Investigation (Copper Canyon Press)
  • 2008: Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon Press) [winner of the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize]
  • 2009: 40 Watts (Octopus Books)
  • 2010: One With Others [[a little book of her days]] (Copper Canyon Press)
  • 2011: Jean Valentine Abridged: Writing a Word; Changing It (Albion Press)
  • 2012: The Other Hand (Horse Less Press)
  • 2016: The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All (Copper Canyon Press) – essays
  • 2016: ShallCross (Copper Canyon Press)
  • 2019: Casting Deep Shade: an Amble (Copper Canyon Press)

References edit

  1. ^ . english.uiuc.edu. Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  2. ^ Fox, Margalit (January 16, 2016). "C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  3. ^ "C. D. Wright (1949–2016) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on May 3, 2013. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
  5. ^ "C.D. Wright Interview with Kent Johnson for Jacket". english.illinois.edu. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  6. ^ Los Angeles Times (January 20, 2016). "Poet C.D. Wright was 'one of the great ones'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  7. ^ "Counting the Dead". The New York Times. June 22, 2008.
  8. ^ "C. D. Wright, January 6, 1949–January 12, 2016".
  9. ^ "C.D. Wright, ex-R.I. state poet and MacArthur 'genius grant' winner, dies at 67". The Providence Journal. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  10. ^ . Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  11. ^ Johnson, Kent. “Looking for ‘one untranslatable song’: C.D. Wright on poetics, collaboration, American prisoners, and Frank Stanford.” Jacket 15 (December 2001)
  12. ^ "C.D. Wright wins high honor: Canada's Griffin Poetry Prize | Today at Brown". today.brown.edu. June 4, 2009. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  13. ^ Chiasson, Dan. "Southern Comfort," The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2011. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018. The woman's name was Margaret Kaelin McHugh, whom Wright called "V".
  14. ^ . gf.org. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
  15. ^ "C.D. Wright: 1989 Winner in Poetry," Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018.
  16. ^ "C.D. Wright," under "State Poets > Rhode Island," Library of Congress, 23 Feb, 2018. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018.
  17. ^ "C.D. Wright, Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018. Includes bio and artist's statement dated 2000.
  18. ^ "C. D. Wright," John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2018. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018.
  19. ^ . robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  20. ^ "C.D. Wright". The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. Retrieved August 10, 2018. Includes a brief video of Wright reading an excerpt.
  21. ^ . nationalbook.org. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011. List of 2010 winners and finalists
  22. ^ "2010 Awards, Poetry Winner October 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists," National Book Critics Circle, 2018. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018.
  23. ^ "Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize," Academy of American Poets, 2018. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2018.

External links edit

External media
Audio
  .mp3 recording of Wright reading from "One Big Self" during the Key West Literary Seminar, 2003
Video
  Griffin Poetry Prize readings, including video clips
  Interview with CD Wright on Words on a Wire
  C.D. Wright reading for UC Berkeley's Holloway Series. October 23, 2014.
  • Author Website
  • Griffin Poetry Prize biography
  • Profile at The Whiting Foundation
  • "Interview", Kent Johnson, Jacket Magazine September 1, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  • Slate magazine
  • C.D. Wright (1949-2016) tribute by Bloodaxe Books
  • C. D. Wright Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

January 01, 1970
carolyn, wright, january, 1949, january, 2016, american, poet, macarthur, fellow, guggenheim, fellow, poet, laureate, rhode, island, borncarolyn, doris, wright, 1949, january, 1949mountain, home, arkansasdiedjanuary, 2016, 2016, aged, barrington, rhode, island. Carolyn D Wright January 6 1949 January 12 2016 was an American poet 1 She was a MacArthur Fellow a Guggenheim Fellow and the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island Carolyn D WrightBornCarolyn Doris Wright 1949 01 06 January 6 1949Mountain Home ArkansasDiedJanuary 12 2016 2016 01 12 aged 67 Barrington Rhode IslandNationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of Memphis University of ArkansasOccupation s Poet professorKnown forMacArthur Fellowship Contents 1 Background 2 Poetry 3 Awards 4 Works 5 References 6 External linksBackground editC D Wright was born in Mountain Home Arkansas to a chancery judge and a court reporter She earned a BA in French from Memphis State University now the University of Memphis in 1971 and briefly attended law school before leaving to pursue an MFA from the University of Arkansas which she received in 1976 Her poetry thesis was titled Alla Breve Loving In 1977 the publishing company founded by Frank Stanford Lost Roads Publishers published Wright s first collection Room Rented by A Single Woman After Stanford died in 1978 Wright took over Lost Roads continuing its mission of publishing new poets and starting the practice of publishing translations In 1979 she moved to San Francisco where she met poet Forrest Gander Wright and Gander married in 1983 and had a son Brecht The husband and wife were co editors at Lost Roads until 2005 2 In 1981 Wright and Gander moved to Dolores Hidalgo Mexico where she completed her third book of poems Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues In 1983 they moved to Providence Rhode Island where she began teaching at Brown University as the Israel J Kapstein Professor of English 3 Over the next 30 years Wright won many major American literary prizes including fellowships from the Lila Acheson Wallace Guggenheim Lannan and MacArthur Foundations while publishing one of the most eclectic bodies of poetic work of her generation The cyclical erotic and tormented fragments of Just Whistle are as distinct from the compressed sensual narratives of Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues as from the lyrical southern paeans of Further Adventures with You Perhaps her most original and internationally influential publications are the book length works Deepstep Come Shining One Big Self and One With Others Each developed in new directions Wright s formally innovative and fundamentally ethical meditations on the South on race relations on incarceration and on the lives of the unsung Together those books helped to define and extend the possibilities for documentary poetics in the twenty first century In 2013 Wright was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets 4 Stephanie Burt has described Wright as an Elliptical Poet 5 but Burt did not use that description in an essay she published as a tribute to Wright just after Wright s death 6 As Joel Brouwer has said she belongs to a school of exactly one 7 C D Wright died on January 12 2016 six days after her 67th birthday 8 Her brother Warren Wright reported that she died peacefully in her sleep of thrombosis a clot after an overly long flight from Chile At the time of her death she was living in Barrington Rhode Island 9 Poetry editWright s poetry is rooted in a sense of place and time and often employs distinct voices in dialogue particularly those of the American South Her work is formally inventive and often documentary in spirit in the sense that it honors those whose stories or voices might be lost were it not for her own writing Her diction mixes high and low to surprising effect and her range of reference is both broad and deep including phrases from other languages allusions to other poems and pieces of conversation Her books include precisely distilled lyrics such as those collected in Tremble as well as book length poems beginning with Just Whistle her first collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster 10 In a 2001 interview with Kent Johnson Wright said As to my own aesthetic associations affiliations sympathies I have never belonged to a notable element of writers who identified with one another partly because I come from Arkansas specifically that part of Arkansas known for its resistance to joining a non urban environment where readily identifiable groups and sub groups are less likely to form In the same interview she states The theoretically driven San Francisco poets who were in cahoots with poets in New York and conversant with European vanguard movements they provided me with a need to become critically aware of my back home ways sharpened me to a degree I m grateful for the exposure the education I am indebted to particular poets work from that point in time but I am not an intellectual in the sense that qualifies or requires me to belong to a manifestoed group And of course one comes to take some pride in one s own outsider status 11 Wright published literary maps of both Rhode Island and Arkansas 12 Wright s later work includes String Light Deepstep Come Shining a book length poem and One Big Self Prisoners of Louisiana another collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster One Big Self An Investigation contains just the poems Her poems are featured in American Alphabets 25 Contemporary Poets 2006 and many other anthologies One With Others mixes investigative journalism history and poetry to explore homegrown civil rights incidents and the critical role her mentor a brilliant and difficult woman played in a little known 1969 March Against Fear in her native Arkansas 13 Shortly after Wright s death in January 2016 Copper Canyon Press published The Poet the Lion Talking Pictures El Farolito a Wedding in St Roch the Big Box Store the Warp in the Mirror Spring Midnights Fire amp All a book of prosimetric essays and ShallCross a book of both short and long form poems Awards edit nbsp John Reed David Biespiel and Wright at the after party for the National Book Critics Circle Awards March 2012 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship 14 1989 Whiting Award 15 1994 99 Poet Laureate of the state of Rhode Island 16 1999 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant 17 2004 MacArthur Fellowship 18 2005 Robert Creeley Award 19 2009 Rising Falling Hovering winner Griffin Poetry Prize 20 2010 One With Others finalist National Book Award Poetry 21 2010 One With Others winner National Book Critics Circle Award Poetry 22 2011 One With Others winner Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 23 Works editThis list of works has been taken mostly from C D Wright s entry at the Academy of American Poets web page titled C D Wright 1977 Room Rented By A Single Woman Lost Roads 1979 Terrorism Lost Roads 1981 Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues State University of New York Press 1986 Further Adventures with You Carnegie Mellon University Press 1991 String Light University of Georgia Press 1993 Just Whistle A Valentine Kelsey Street Press with photographs by Deborah Luster 1996 Tremble Ecco 1998 Deepstep Come Shining Copper Canyon Press 2002 Steal Away New and Selected Poems Copper Canyon Press shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize 2003 One Big Self Prisoners of Louisiana Twin Palms with photographs by Deborah Luster 2005 Cooling Time An American Poetry Vigil Copper Canyon Press 2007 One Big Self An Investigation Copper Canyon Press 2008 Rising Falling Hovering Copper Canyon Press winner of the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize 2009 40 Watts Octopus Books 2010 One With Others a little book of her days Copper Canyon Press 2011 Jean Valentine Abridged Writing a Word Changing It Albion Press 2012 The Other Hand Horse Less Press 2016 The Poet The Lion Talking Pictures El Farolito A Wedding in St Roch The Big Box Store The Warp in the Mirror Spring Midnights Fire amp All Copper Canyon Press essays 2016 ShallCross Copper Canyon Press 2019 Casting Deep Shade an Amble Copper Canyon Press References edit C D Wright Interview with Kent Johnson for Jacket english uiuc edu Archived from the original on September 1 2006 Retrieved September 18 2011 Fox Margalit January 16 2016 C D Wright Poet of Ozarks and Beyond Dies at 67 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 11 2016 C D Wright 1949 2016 Encyclopedia of Arkansas Academy of American Poets Archived from the original on May 3 2013 Retrieved May 7 2012 C D Wright Interview with Kent Johnson for Jacket english illinois edu Retrieved September 18 2011 Los Angeles Times January 20 2016 Poet C D Wright was one of the great ones Los Angeles Times Retrieved April 8 2016 Counting the Dead The New York Times June 22 2008 C D Wright January 6 1949 January 12 2016 C D Wright ex R I state poet and MacArthur genius grant winner dies at 67 The Providence Journal January 14 2016 Retrieved January 14 2016 C D Wright Archived from the original on October 14 2013 Retrieved October 13 2013 Johnson Kent Looking for one untranslatable song C D Wright on poetics collaboration American prisoners and Frank Stanford Jacket 15 December 2001 C D Wright wins high honor Canada s Griffin Poetry Prize Today at Brown today brown edu June 4 2009 Retrieved September 18 2011 Chiasson Dan Southern Comfort The New Yorker 3 Jan 2011 Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 The woman s name was Margaret Kaelin McHugh whom Wright called V C D Wright John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation gf org Archived from the original on June 28 2011 Retrieved September 18 2011 C D Wright 1989 Winner in Poetry Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 C D Wright under State Poets gt Rhode Island Library of Congress 23 Feb 2018 Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 C D Wright Foundation for Contemporary Arts Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 Includes bio and artist s statement dated 2000 C D Wright John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 2018 Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 Robert Creeley Foundation Award Robert Creeley Award robertcreeleyfoundation org Archived from the original on August 3 2017 Retrieved March 23 2018 C D Wright The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry Retrieved August 10 2018 Includes a brief video of Wright reading an excerpt C D Wright One with Others 2010 National Book Award Poetry Finalist The National Book Foundation nationalbook org Archived from the original on September 3 2011 Retrieved September 18 2011 List of 2010 winners and finalists 2010 Awards Poetry Winner Archived October 18 2015 at the Wayback Machine All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists National Book Critics Circle 2018 Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Academy of American Poets 2018 Retrieved 10 Aug 2018 External links editThis article s use of external links may not follow Wikipedia s policies or guidelines Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references November 2016 Learn how and when to remove this message External mediaAudio nbsp mp3 recording of Wright reading from One Big Self during the Key West Literary Seminar 2003Video nbsp Griffin Poetry Prize readings including video clips nbsp Interview with CD Wright on Words on a Wire nbsp C D Wright reading for UC Berkeley s Holloway Series October 23 2014 Author Website Griffin Poetry Prize biography Profile at The Whiting Foundation C D Wright The Academy of American Poets Interview Kent Johnson Jacket Magazine Archived September 1 2006 at the Wayback Machine Only the crossing counts Slate magazine Bent Tones by C D Wright Overview Wright s work at Open Letters C D Wright 1949 2016 tribute by Bloodaxe Books C D Wright Papers Yale Collection of American Literature Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Carolyn D Wright amp oldid 1220489058, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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