The Branch Will Not Break: Poems

by James Wright

Book Overview

A new book of poetry from a Pulitzer Prize-winning master poet

These new poems by the author of Saint Judas and The Green Wall embody a sharp break with his earlier work. Their impact is well described by the British critic Michael Hamburger: "He has absorbed the work of modern Spanish and other continental poets and evolved a medium of his own. This medium dispenses with argument and rhetoric, and presents the pure substance of poetry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819510181
• ISBN13: 9780819510181
• Release Date: May 1963
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 59 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 7.8"