God's Silence

by Franz Wright

Book Overview

In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha's Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God's Silence with "East Boston, 1996," a powerful long poem that looks back at the darker moments in the formation of his sensibility. He shares his private rules for bus riding ("No eye contact: the eyes of the terrified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375710817
• ISBN13: 9780375710810
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.4"