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Author Wright, James, 1927-1980.

Title The branch will not break : poems / by James Wright.

Publication Info. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1963]
©1963

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Edition [1st ed.].
Description 1 online resource (59 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Wesleyan poetry program
Wesleyan poetry program.
Contents As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor -- Goodbye to the poetry of calcium -- In fear of harvests -- Three stanzas from Goethe -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio -- Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- Jewel -- In the face of hatred -- Fear is what quickens me -- A message hidden in an empty wine bottle that I threw into a gully of maple trees one night at an indecent hour -- Stages on a journey westward -- How my fever left -- Miners -- In Ohio -- Two poems about President Harding -- Eisenhower's visit to Franco, 1959 -- In memory of a Spanish poet -- Undermining of the defense economy -- Twilights -- Two hangovers -- Depressed by a book of bad poetry, I walk toward an unused pasture and invite the insects to join me -- Two horses playing in the orchard -- By a lake in Minnesota -- Beginning -- From a bus window in Central Ohio, just before a thunder shower -- March -- Trying to pray -- Two spring charms -- Spring images -- Arriving in the country again -- In the cold house -- Snowstorm in the Midwest -- Having lost my sons, I confront the wreckage of the moon : Christmas 1960 -- American wedding -- A prayer to escape from the market place -- Rain -- Today I was happy, so I made this poem -- Mary Bly -- To the evening star : Central Minnesota -- I was afraid of dying -- A blessing -- Milkweed -- A dream of burial.
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Subject American poetry.
American poetry.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form American poetry.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Other Form: Print version: Wright, James Arlington, 1927-1980. Branch will not break. [1st ed.]. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [1963] 0819510181 (DLC) 63008858 (OCoLC)291436
ISBN 0585371474 (electronic book)
9780585371474 (electronic book)
9780819569844 (electronic book)
0819569844 (electronic book)
9780819510181
0819510181