
Buffalo Yoga
The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,
And evening with its blotting paper
lifts off the light.
Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines
--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"
Never has Charles Wright''s vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright''s short lyrics, in Charles Simic''s words, "ac...
The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,
And evening with its blotting paper
lifts off the light.
Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines
--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"
Never has Charles Wright''s vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright''s short lyrics, in Charles Simic''s words, "ac...