Robert Wrigley's BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
Date of Review:
Apr.14.2011
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Reviewer:
Joe Wilkins
Source:
Orion Magazine
"THE OTHER WEEKEND, on a plane from Denver to Minneapolis, my sixteen-month-old son sleeping fitfully on my lap, I reread Robert Wrigley’s Beautiful Country and felt like some kind of thief, keeping all these breathless, needful, gainsaying poems to myself. I wanted to whisper into the small hollow of my son’s ear, recite to my wife, turn in my seat to the man in the blue suit behind me and say, 'Listen.'"
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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.