Charles Wright (poet)

Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. He was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, and attended Davidson College and the University of Iowa.

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August 25 - 1935 - American - Poet - Pickwick Dam, Tennessee - Davidson College - University of Iowa

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Wright has been widely published, winning the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for Black Zodiac. Other works include Chickamauga, Buffalo Yoga, Negative Blue, Appalachia, The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, Zone Journals and Hard Freight.

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National Book Award - 1983 - Pulitzer Prize - 1997

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Wright has published two works of criticism, Halflife and Quarter Notes. His translation of Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Poems won him the PEN Translation Prize.

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Eugenio Montale - PEN

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He is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and Souder Family Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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The Academy of American Poets - English - University of Virginia - Charlottesville

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