Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems

by C.D. Wright

C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Much of her poetry is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Long admired for the honed ferocity of her vision, she wrote with a distinctive Southern accent and a cinematic eye, cut with a secular wit that only slightly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852247622
• ISBN13: 9781852247621
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.