Xylem & Heartwood

by William Wright

$14, paper

William Wrightis author of five full-length books of poems, includingCreeks of the Upper South(co-written with Amy Wright, jointly published by Jacar Press and Unicorn Press, 2016),Tree Heresies(Mercer University Press, 2015),Night Field Anecdote(Louisiana Literature Press, 2011),Bledsoe(Texas Review Press, 2011), andDark Orchard(Texas Review Press, 2005, winner of the Breakthrough Poetry Prize). Wrights chapbooks areApril Creatures(Blue Horse Press, 2015),Sleep Paralysis(Stepping Stones Press, 2012, Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, selected by Kwame Dawes),Xylem & Heartwood(FLP, 2013) andThe Ghost Narratives(FLP, 2008). Wright is Series Editor and Volume Co-editor ofThe Southern Poetry Anthology, a multivolume series celebrating contemporary writing of the American South, published by Texas Review Press. Additionally, Wright serves as assistant editor ofShenandoah, translates German poetry, and is editing three volumes, includingHard Lines: Rough South Poetry(with Daniel Cross Turner, The University of South Carolina Press),The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins(with Daniel Westover, Clemson University Press, 2016), andThe Fire that Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkinss Poetic Legacies(with Daniel Westover, forthcoming from Clemson in 2017). Wright won the 2012 Porter Fleming Prize in Literature, the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year from the Georgia Writers Association, and his fifth volume ofThe Southern Poetry Anthologywas listed as 20 books all Georgians should read by the Georgia Center for the Book. Wright has recently published inThe Kenyon Review,Oxford American,The Antioch Review,Shenandoah, andSouthern Poetry Review.