World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

The World of Ten Thousand Things gathers The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), Zone Journals (1988), and a new group of poems, "Xionia," into one volume, allowing us to see Wright's work of the past decade as, in essence, one long poem, a meditation on self, history, and the metaphysical that is among the most ambituous and resonant creations in contemporary American poetry.Wright, Charles is the author of 'World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990', published 1990 under ISBN 9780374292935 and ISBN 0374292930.