"Wright shrinks back from nothing."—The Village Voice
"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."—The New York Times Book Review
"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."—The New Yorker
"C.D. Wright is one of America''s oddest, best, and most appealing poets."—Publishers Weekly
A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine." Wright''s passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetry is poetry.
From "In a Word":
I love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with yo
