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The thoughtful, inspiring letters of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate... Read Full Overview

The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words. "There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance to formulate certain ideas,... Read Full Overview

As James Wright, one of the great lyric poets of the last century, wrote in a letter to a friend: "There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tentative and uncertain as one likes and also the chance... Read Full Overview