About Charles Wright

Charles Wright’s many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent books are Littlefoot (FSG, 2007) and Scar Tissue (FSG, 2006), and he will be the guest editor of the 2008 edition of The Best American Poetry. He is the Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey

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We lay out our own dark end,
guilt, and the happiness of guilt.
God never enters into it, nor
Do his pale hands and pale wings,

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