
"Through more than a dozen collections, C.D. Wright pushed the bounds of imagination as she explored desire, loss and physical sensation. Her posthumously published book, ShallCross features seven poem sequences that show her tremendous range in style and approach...

"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle." -- The New Yorker "Wright gets better with each book, expanding the reach of her art; it seems it could take in anything." -- Publishers Weekly "These poems are...