Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems

<p>Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, Charles Wright has built &quot;one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century&quot; (David Young, <i>Contemporary Poets</i>) . <i>Bye-and-Bye</i>, which brings together selections from Wright's more recent work -- including the entirety of <i>Littlefoot</i>, Wright's moving, book-length meditation on mortality -- showcases the themes and images that have defined his mature work: the true affinity between writer and subject, human and nature; the tenuous relationship between description and actuality; and the search for a truth that transcends change and death.</p><p><i>Bye-and-Bye </i>is a wonderful introduction to the late work of one of America's finest and best-loved poets.</p>