Further Adventures with You

by C. D. Wright

Overview

A collection of poetry by C. D. Wright.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887480560
Publisher:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1986
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

C. D. WRIGHT was born on Epiphany in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published four collections of poetry, and in 1981 received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts which prompted a move to Mexico. Presently she is at work on a manuscript in prose titled The Woman Who Loved Blue Duck. With Forrest Gander she edits Lost Roads Publishers, a book press. Her obsessions are art and politics. Compulsions include conversation, dining, and flower gardening. She is on the faculty at Brown University.

Table of Contents

foreword: hills • Nothing to Declare • Spread Rhythm • Wages Of Love • Provinces • Glowworm • Little Sisters • Vestigial Love Poem • Ancestor Figure • The Complete Birth Of The Cool • Treatment • The Spirit Hunter • Acoustics • Carla • Slag • Elements Of Night • Hotels • The Wooden Age • Lapse • Scratch Music • Illuminations • The Legend Of Hell • Kahlo • The Lesson • The Rio • This Couple • The Cinematographer’s Faro Island Log • Petition For Replenishment • One Summer • Two Hearts In A Forest • Handfasting • Further Adventures With You • On The Eve Of Our Mutually Assured Destruction • Apparent Dimensions Of Celestial Bodies

Editorial Reviews

With her opening words, Wright ( String Light ) introduces ``the body, alive, not dead but dormant.'' A few lines later, the body is asked to take off its panties. This sensual image of the would-be naked female pervades the volume, as the poet deftly uses repetition and slight variation to keep readers attentive to what might otherwise be a difficult book to follow. The work is predominantly in prose-poem form, and some of the clearest insights into Wright's process are contained within structured line breaks. Thus she looks longingly back at the old days, when bodies were naked, and insists that the same body that had refused to remove its panties ``has the right to remain naked.'' The body becomes pregnant; the moment of giving birth is hauntingly articulated: ``pressure of rock on the chest . . . tremendous fall of rock.'' Later, the nondescript voice says there was ``something about'' a country drive, a gas station, clothes found in weeds--alluding to rape and murder. While the structure of this long cyclical poem demonstrates Wright's affinities with the Language poets, her work might best be understood alongside female performance artists who direct attention to the body. Photos not seen by PW. (Dec.)

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