Robert Wrigley's Books
Mar.26.2013
A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake—Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions—Wrigley's new collection means to...
Sep.28.2010
Robert Wrigley's new book is a portrait of a nation, one that is a singular part of a singular planet--an experiment in democratic governance still aspiring toward perfection, with an exuberant and frequently exasperating culture. In such a country, the glimpse of a horse under a full moon can be a defining moment, full of grace and a new, if not always comfortable, awareness. So...
Oct.15.2006
A selection of poems from my first six books, as well as a group of new poems.
Apr.30.1999
"Robert Wrigley is an historian of the present. His smart, moving poems are attuned to the drama of the moment, and his honest, musical language lifts real experience deftly into art."--Billy Collins
Two books reprinted as a single volume
"Wrigley ponders what it is that we have that animals lack, and what animals have that we can only long for: their perfect fit witht he cosmos.... Dramatic and heady, his transporting poems knit us tightly into the glistening web of life"--Booklist
About Robert
I was born in the Midwest but have lived nearly all of my adult life in Idaho. I studied writing at the University of Montana, with Madeline DeFrees and Richard Hugo, in the mid-seventies, and I now teach in the MFA program in writing at the University of...
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Causes Robert Wrigley Supports
All those offered by the Constitution of the United States, especially those that have yet to be extended to all of the nation's citizens.