Bye-and-Bye

Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built &quote;one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century&quote; (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Bye-and-Bye, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work-including the entirety of Littlefoot, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality-showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true affinity between writer and subject, human and nature; the tenuous relationship between description and actuality; and the search for a truth that transcends change and death.Bye-and-Bye is a wonderful introduction to the late work of one of America's finest and best-loved poets.