James Wright

James Wright’s book The Branch Will Not Break (Wesleyan, 1963) was one of the most important collections of American poetry of the mid-twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems in 1973. In 2005, twenty-five years after Wright’s death, A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright, edited by his widow, Anne Wright, and Saundra Maley, with Jonathan Blunk, was published by FSG. Another selection of letters from that collection has appeared in the New England Review.