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# Above the River: The Complete Poems

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    Sublime Poetry Slightly Flawed by Format
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2003*

I hate to give this work anything less than 5-stars, because at the  moment (and probably most future moments) I revere James Wright's poetry.  He makes blue collar blackened river Ohio come alive riven death with darkness and life.  So this book is a must for poetry lovers.Where it distracts me is the attempts at completeness is a difficult editor's dilemma and one that doesn't serve the poet or the poet's reader well here.  There are two James Wright's out there (this book presents three), as is true with most sublimated artist that pass through a learning phase before hitting on their voice, their style.James Wright started as a formalist (not my favored style) hailing structure and rhyme sometimes at the expense of meaning and language (disclaimer...one man's humble opinion belies a personal taste and no two taste buds seem the same).  The book of course being a complete work, offers all of those poems of bandied prose.  And then the editor offers a bridge or break of sorts in Wright's translated works of German and Spanish poets.  Wright was a great poet in English, but the gift of gifted translation should have been left to the likes of W.S. Merwin, Anthony Kerrigan, Charles Tomlinson, and Stephen Mitchell for Neruda, Paz, and Rilke.So, Wright's "Above the River," really first breaks the surface on page 119 after his epiphany to all thing free form.  It is then that his poetry sings darkly.  I leave you with some of Wright's beautiful language (there's plenty to be had).  Buy the book for the rest.In Fear of HarvestsIt has happenedBefore: nearby,The nostrils of slow horsesBreathe evenly,And the brown bees drag their high garlands,Heavily,Toward hives of snow.

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    Above The River: The Complete Poems of james Wright
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2011*

This volume is fascinating, because it does show the different stages of Wright's development as a poet and a writer (the prose sketches and descriptions of Italy are wonderful).The early poems are extremely capable but there is a sense in which they feel constrained by formal verse conventions, especially rhyme. This becomes evident when he writes in free verse and his voice becomes easier and more vernacular. Some of the poems like "Hook" and "To A Blossoming Pear Tree" are wonderful:'An old man / Appeared to me once / In the unendurable snow./ He had singe of white beard on his face. / He paused on a strett on Minneapolis / And stroked my face. // Give it to me, he begged / I'll pay you anything. // I flinched. Both terrified, / We slunk away, / Each in his own way dodging / The cruel darts of the cold. "There are some late poems when he becomes almost incoherent, but the centre of the book is a whole series of poems as powerful and honest as this.

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    A complete collection of Wright's poems
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021*

Am enjoying reading Wright's poems.

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