Black Zodiac (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Wright
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Memory, Parents and children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Art or artists, Marriage, Midwest, Poetry or poets, Violence, Death or dying, Revenge, Faith, Depression, mental, Nazism or Nazis, AIDS, Life, philosophy of, Meditation, Cemeteries, Prayers, Spring
Black Zodiac is an impressively constructed sequence of poems by one of the finest contemporary American poets. This book of poems follows Wright’s highly praised Chickamauga (1995) and shows no diminution of power, but a clearer focus and, in some ways, a deeper concentration. The poems are linked by common themes: The poet is in his sixties, racked by melancholy and thoughts of death and loss, and searching for that “small, still center of everything.”
The first part of the book is a sequence entitled “Apologia Pro Vita Sua,” an allusion to the memoir of...
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