#c.d. wright

[mudkipper]

Arrival (2016) // C.D. Wright // True Detective (2014-) // Franz Kafka // Dark (2017-2020) // Franz Kafka

[firstfullmoon]

C.D. Wright, in an interview with Guernica

[agirlnamedbone]

C.D. Wright (The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, 2016)

[elwenyere]

"Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified."

-- C.D. Wright

[blogdemocratesjr]

Marcel Antonio

Poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

—C.D. Wright

[havingapoemwithyou]

more blues and the abstract truth by C.D. Wright

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"Come all ye faithless / young and crazy victims of love."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

[robertogreco]

Clockmaker with Bad Eyes by C.D. Wright I close the shop at six. Welcome wind, weekend with two suns, night with a travel book, the dog-eared sheets of a bed I will not see again. I not of time, lost in time learned from watches— a second is a killing thing. Live your life. Your eyes go. Take your body out for walks along the waters of a cold and loco planet. Love whatever flows. Cooking smoke, woman's blood, tears. Do you hear what I'm telling you?

c.d. wright

[heart-songs]

Gift of the Book

lights go off all over rhode island everyone falls into bed I stay awake reading the long-waited prose of your body stunned by the hunger

- C.D. Wright

[woundgallery]

C.D Wright

and

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Ross and Harry), C-print jigsaw puzzle in plastic bag;

[dyketastics]

from C.D Wright’s The Poet, the Lion, Taking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All

[agirlnamedbone]

C.D. Wright (The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, 2016)

[lithub]

April 28, 2025

Today, we’re going hard for The Martian Chronicles, thinking about trans history and trans historical fiction, and considering heteropessimism in literature!

On Lit Hub dot com:

Sam Weller on Ray Bradbury’s underappreciated classic: “The Martian Chronicles is a serious book about serious human themes. It is science fiction as a reflection of modernity.” | Lit Hub Criticism

Milo Todd on tracing and preserving trans history while writing historical fiction. | Lit Hub History

Forrest Gander talks to Poets.org about editing C.D. Wright and “enthusiasm for the magic of the word.” | Lit Hub In Conversation

Alok A. Khroana examines William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road and the millennia-long cultural connections between India and Eurasia. | Lit Hub History

“My auntie always hid in the front closet whenever they started shooting.” Read “Shots Fired on New Year’s Eve,” a poem by Ali Black from the collection We Look Better Alive. | Lit Hub Poetry

Cutter Wood on Thomas Browne and the joys and possibilities of exploring the unknown. | Lit Hub Craft

“Every now and again when I receive one of his emails, I’m always amazed at how brilliant and hilarious he is.” Harry Bliss on his close encounters with Sy Hersh. | Lit Hub Memoir

“One day, not so very long ago, he caught himself looking at his face mirrored in the window of a small plane flying from Paris to Munich.” Read from Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s novel Separate Rooms, translated by Simon Pleasance. | Lit Hub Fiction

From around the internet:

Mitchell S. Jackson reads Shakespeare for the first time in his 40s: “[E]ven in this dogged culture war—no, especially in this fierce war for the rule of white culture—I’m claiming old William of Stratford as mines, too.” | Esquire

What does it take to write a cookbook? Jenn Sit, editorial director of cooking at Clarkson Potter, talks culinary inspiration and new food canons. | Eater

“Kemp’s concentration camps literalize gender expectations as compulsory, inescapable structures in which people aren’t individuals but representatives of an ideal.” Arielle Isack considers the heteropessimism of Sophie Kemp’s fiction. | The Baffler

As Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona turns 50, it’s finally time to show Big Anthony some appreciation. | The New York Times

Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss inspiration, the relationship between creativity and grief, and climate crisis. | Los Angeles Review of Books

“Adventure, transformation and change in Finn Family Moomintroll are both necessary and desirable, but they are also contained within a reassuring frame of reliable predictability.” Sue Walsh revisits Tove Jansson’s Moomin books. | The Conversation

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[neoyorzapoteca]

I was thinking of something, going back to seeing . . . This is not related to mood, but to the painterly aspect of the writing. I was saying I like a very incisive language. At the same time, I really like a lot of texture. So that means I build up the paint. Even though I like something to be very clean, I am likewise attracted to layering. (...) Layering in and laying in different registers of language. I am not enthralled with a smooth, overly consistent language.

C.D. Wright (via American Poetry Review – Poems)

[aesthetease]

"If you do not use language you are used by it."

― C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil