Article: Scar Tissue: Poems.(Book review)

Scar Tissue: Poems by Charles Wright, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, $22.00, cloth, ISBN 0374254273.

For the past thirty-five years Charles Wright has been one of the most intriguing figures in our literary landscape. Notice of the truly epic and monumental dimensions of his work came with the publication of Country Music, winner of the National Book Award in 1983. This collection pulled together a handful of prose poems from The Grave of the Right Hand, along with the three main collections of the 1970s, Hard Freight, Bloodlines, and China Trace, which Wright referred to as landscapes of past, present, and future. In Country Music, Wright's work despite its ...






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