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C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright was born in 1949 in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil...
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FURTHER READING
Ars Poetica
Epistles, Book II, Ars Poetica
by Horace
A Book Of Music
by Jack Spicer
A True Poem
by Lloyd Schwartz
All Their Stanzas Look Alike
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Always on the Train
by Ruth Stone
Ars Poetica
by Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
by Eleanor Wilner
Ars Poetica (cocoons)
by Dana Levin
Art Class
by James Galvin
Arthur's Anthology of English Poetry
by Laurence Lerner
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry
by Howard Nemerov
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
by Jane Kenyon
Broadway
by Mark Doty
Diving into the Wreck
by Adrienne Rich
Endnote
by Hayden Carruth
Envoi
by William Meredith
Ground Swell
by Mark Jarman
Instructions to Be Left Behind
by Marvin Bell
Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
O Black and Unknown Bards
by James Weldon Johnson
On the Subject of Poetry
by W. S. Merwin
Poet's Work
by Lorine Niedecker
Poetry
by Marianne Moore
Prefix: Finding the measure
by Robert Kelly
Some Part of the Lyric
by Gregory Orr
Speech Alone
by Jean Follain
Strawberry on the Drawbridge
by Matthea Harvey
Take the I Out
by Sharon Olds
The Allure of Forms
by Coral Bracho
The Bargain
by Cyrus Cassells
The Bear
by Galway Kinnell
The Poem as Mask
by Muriel Rukeyser
The Poems I Have Not Written
by John Brehm
The Snow and the Plum — II
by Lu Mei-P'o
The Uses of Poetry
by William Carlos Williams
What He Thought
by Heather McHugh
Workshop
by Billy Collins
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And It Came to Pass  
by C. D. Wright

This june 3
would be different

Time to draw lines

I've grown into the family pores
and the bronchitis

Even up east
I get by saying goddamnit

Who was that masked man
I left for dead
in the shadow of mt. shadow

Who crumbles there

Not touching anything
but satin and dandelions

Not laid his eyes
on the likes of you

Because the unconnected life
is not worth living

Thorntrees overtake the spot

Hands appear to push back pain

Because no poet's death

Can be the sole author
of another poet's life

What will my new instrument be

Just this water glass
this untunable spoon

Something else is out there
goddamnit

And I want to hear it



From Steal Away: New and Selected Poems by C. D. Wright. Copyright © 2002 by C. D. Wright. Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press. All rights reserved.
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