Xylem & Heartwood by William Wright

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Xylem & Heartwood

by William Wright

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William Wright is author of five full-length books of poems, including Creeks of the Upper South (co-written with Amy Wright, jointly published by Jacar Press and Unicorn Press, 2016), Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, 2015), Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011), Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011), and Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, 2005, winner of the Breakthrough Poetry Prize). Wright’s chapbooks are April Creatures (Blue Horse Press, 2015), Sleep Paralysis (Stepping Stones Press, 2012, Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, selected by Kwame Dawes), Xylem & Heartwood(FLP, 2013) and The Ghost Narratives (FLP, 2008). Wright is Series Editor and Volume Co-editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, a multivolume series celebrating contemporary writing of the American South, published by Texas Review Press. Additionally, Wright serves as assistant editor of Shenandoah, translates German poetry, and is editing three volumes, including Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (with Daniel Cross Turner, The University of South Carolina Press), The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (with Daniel Westover, Clemson University Press, 2016), and The Fire that Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Legacies (with Daniel Westover, forthcoming from Clemson in 2017). Wright won the 2012 Porter Fleming Prize in Literature, the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year from the Georgia Writers Association, and his fifth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology was listed as “20 books all Georgians should read” by the Georgia Center for the Book. Wright has recently published in The Kenyon ReviewOxford AmericanThe Antioch ReviewShenandoah, and Southern Poetry Review.

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