The Branch Will Not Break - Empty-Grave Extended Edition (Paperback)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright shines in the Empty-Grave Extended Edition of THE BRANCH WILL NOT BREAK. This beautifully bound 6" by 9" trade paperback also contains a complete word-frequency report for readers that wish to delve further into interpretation. The publisher has done everything possible to ensure the main body of text in this book matches its original 1963 release; this includes page size, vertical and horizontal alignment of each individual poem and its separate stanzas, verses that span multiple pages, and non-traditional use of white space. In these forty-three poems the wordsmith weaves together visions of nature and the decay of American life in true form. Readers can further dig their teeth into interpretation and theme via the comprehensive Word Frequency Report available only in this Empty-Grave release. Complete list of poems: As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese GovernorGoodbye to the Poetry of CalciumIn Fear of HarvestsThree Stanzas From Goethe Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, OhioLying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, MinnesotaThe JewelIn the Face of Hatred Fear Is What Quickens MeA Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle That I Threw into a Cully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent HourStages on a Journey WestwardHow My Fever LeftMiners In OhioTwo Poems About President HardingEisenhower's Visit to Franco, 1959In Memory of a Spanish PoetThe Undermining of the Defense EconomyTwilights Two HangoversDepressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join MeTwo Horses Playing in the OrchardBy a Lake in MinnesotaBeginningFrom a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder ShowerMarchTrying to Pray Two Spring CharmsSpring ImagesArriving in the Country Again In the Cold HouseSnowstorm in the MidwestHaving Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960American WeddingA Prayer to Escape From the Market PlaceRainToday I Was Happy, So I Made this PoemMary BlyTo the Evening Star: Central MinnesotaI Was Afraid of Dying A BlessingMilkweedA Dream of Burial