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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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Kingsport Harmony

Charles Wright

That landscape—unpeopled, unburiable, sun-stunned—
Lifts me re-orphaned out of language
Into the nomenclature of stones,
unangeled, unsought-for.

Time will not change a word of this,
nor slow its architecture
Of buzzing fly and whispering wasp,
Time, the great engulfer, time,
with its louche mouth and lisping tongue.

From the Summer 2007 Issue

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