James Wright: A Life in Poetry AUTH-12989351 It's not always the biggest

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James Wright: A Life in Poetry AUTH-12989351 It's not always the biggestThe authorized and sweeping biography of one of America's most complex, influential, and enduring poets In the extraordinary generation of American poets who came of age in the middle of the twentieth century, James Wright (1927 1980) was frequently placed at the top of the list. With a fierce, single minded devotion to his work, Wright escaped the steel town of his Depression era childhood in the Ohio valley to become a revered professor of English