Steal Away: Selected and New Poems

“Wright is a poet of personality and of resistance to personality. She is a poet of a powerful shaping voice and of resistance to shapeliness. She is a poet of the present moment, but also a poet of American history. And she’s a poet of big messy book-length poems but also of tiny perfect lyric moments. She just does so many things so well.” Read more...

The Best Contemporary American Poetry

Stephanie Burt