{"product_id":"oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright","title":"Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright","description":"The recipient of almost every honor in poetry - the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few - and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career - for devout fans and newcomers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of his work - more than twenty books in total - Charles Wright has built \"one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century\" (David Young, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Poets\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eOblivion Banjo\u003c\/i\u003e, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright's poetry: \"language, landscape, and the idea of God.\" No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985499361360,"sku":"9780374251017B","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/oblivion-banjo-the-poetry-of-charles-wright","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}