Name: One with Others: [A Little Book of Her Days]
ISBN: 9781556593888

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Winner:Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize -Poetry (2011)

Investigative journalism becomes the poet's realm as C.D. Wright returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. In her signature style, Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her incandescent mentor, Mrs. Vittitow (V)--with the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, activists, and a group of black students who were rounded up and detained in an empty public swimming pool. This is a history told by many voices, and it leaps howling off the page.

Book Details

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publish Date: Apr 12nd, 2011
Pages: 170
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.90in - 0.60in - 0.70lb
EAN: 9781556593888
Categories: • American - General• Poetry

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About the Author

C.D. Wright: C.D. Wright has published over a dozen works of poetry and prose, including the recent volumes One With Others, which was nominated for a National Book Award, One Big Self: An Investigation, and Rising Falling Hovering. Among her many honors are the Robert Creeley Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.

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#ClipOfTheDay: “This is not a work of history. It is a report full of holes,” reads the late C. D. Wright from her book One With Others: [a little book of her days] (@CopperCanyonPrs) for this 2015 @CDSDuke event. https://t.co/u1fl3lGnmZ https://t.co/XSU8FQZCH6

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"One With Others (2010) won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. It mixes journalism, history, and poetry to explore an incident in the Civil Rights movement in Arkansas. Wright draws on oral histories, hymns, lists, newspaper articles, and memories."--Book Riot