High Lonesome

Introduction • REVIEWS • Charles Wright’s Country Music (1991) — David St. John • from “One for the Rose and The Southern Cross” (1982) — David Walker • from “Lives in a Rearview Mirror” (1984) — David Kalstone • from “The Trace of a Story Line” — Mark Jarman • from “The Pragmatic Imagination and Secret of Poetry” (1988) — Mark Jarman • Travels in Time (1998) — Helen Vendler • Zone Journals (1991) — Sherod Santos • from “An Elegist’s New England, a Buddhist’s Dante” (1991) — Richard Tillinghast • The Blood Bees of Paradise (1991) — David Young • Improvisations on Charles Wright’s The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1992) — Tom Andrews • Charles Wright’s Hymn (1991) — Christopher Buckley • The Nothing That Is (1995) — Helen Vendler • from “On Restraint” — David Baker • from “Earned Weight” — James Longenbach • Between Heaven and Earth (1999) — Adam Kirsch • Ars Longa (1999) — J. D. McClatchy • An Enchanted, Diminished World (2000) — Ron Smith • ESSAYS • The Transcendent “I” (1979) — Helen Vendler • Tracing Charles Wright — Calvin Bedient • Under the Sign of the Cross (1989) — J. D. McClatcy • “Things that Lock Our Wrists to the Past”: Self-Portraiture and Autobiography in Charles Wright’s Poetry (1989) — James McCorkle • Gospel Music: Charles Wright and the High Lonesome (1992) — Michael Chitwood • Charles Wright and Presences in Absence (1994) — Julian Gitzen • The Capabilities of Charles Wright (1992) — Stephen Cushman • Metaphysics of the Image in Charles Wright and Paul Césanne(1994) — Bruce Bond • Resurrecting the Baroque (1997) — Peter Stitt • The Doubting Penitent: Charles Wright’s Epiphanies of Abandonment (1998) — Lee Upton • Poetic Standard Time: The Zones of Charles Wright (1998) — Christopher R. Miller • Chrles Wright, Giorgio Morandi, and the Metaphysics of the Line (2002) — Bonnie Costello • Charles Wright’s Via Mystica (2004) — Henry Hart • Charles Wright and “The Metapysics of the Quotidian” (2005) — Willard Spiegelman • Bibliography • Contributors • Acknowledgments