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  • A Short History of the Shadow

    Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Luminous new poems from the author of " The Appalachian Book of the Dead"Landscape, as Wang Wei says, softens the sharp edges of isolation.Don't just do something, sit there.And so I have, so I have,the seasons curling around me like smoke,Gone to the end of the earth and back without a sound.-"Body and Soul II"This is Charles Wright's first collection of verse since the ... ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Collected Novels of Charles Wright

    The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About

    by Charles Wright ...
    The complete trilogy following the double life of a young black man in mid-twentieth-century New York: "Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesIn this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as "malevolent, bitter, glittering"—a young black intellectual from the South struggles to make ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oblivion Banjo

    The Poetry of Charles Wright

    by Charles Wright ...
    The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Char... ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Bye-and-Bye

    Selected Late Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    The acclaimed collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet whose work is "conceived in a manner that never ceased to astonish" (Helen Vendler, The New Republic).Over the course of nineteen collections of poems, former US Poet Laureate Charles Wright has built "one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century" (David Young, Contemporary Poets).Bye ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • How To Be Creative

    by Charles Wright ...
    You deserve success!You can live a rich full and productive life, by following the tracks and traits of creative people.There are observed traits that are common to almost all creative people, and those traits can easily be learned.With the traits of the tracks left by some very creative people, you can follow the tracks, and learn to unleash the very powerful genius of creativity that lies ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Negative Blue

    Selected Later Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    Negative Blue is the culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.Time will append us like suit coats left out overnightOn a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,Silk handkerchief limp with dew,sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.And love will kill us--Love, and the winds from under the earththat grin... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Country Music

    Selected Early Poems

    by Charles Wright ...
    A compilation of powerful and moving poems from early in the poet's career.Co-winner of the 1983 National Book Award for Poetry, Country Music is comprised of eighty-eight poems selected from Charles Wright's first four books published between 1970 and 1977. From his first book, The Grave of the Right Hand, to the extraordinary China Trace, this selection of early works represents "Charles Wright ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Definitive Guide to Magic

    How to do Magic Tricks: Optical Illusions, Coin Magic, Sleight of Hand, Conjuration, Fire Eating and More

    by Charles G. Wright ...
    This superb guide to magic tricks uncovers and teaches the secrets behind many of the most popular magic routines and stage illusions ever invented. Perfect for beginners and fans of casual performance and stage magic, The Definitive Guide to Magic is an illustrated guidebook which examines and unveils the methods behind magic tricks, optical illusions, conjuring, coin magic and sleight of hand - ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD

  • The Lost Continent

    by Edgar Rice Burroughs & Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne ...
    We were both of us not a little stiff as the result of sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be trifled with. For myself on these occasions I like a bit of a run as an early refresher. But here on this rough ground in the middle of the island there were not three yards of level to be found, and so as ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Captain Kettle on the War-path

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne ...
    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Captain Sir Owen Kettle, the one-legged seaman who chafes at being kept from the war, leaps at a secret mission to intercept a German submarine and outwit official caution with sheer nerve. In New Orleans, he and politician Martin Carnforth adopt aliases, trail the suspicious tanker Grüda, and are drugged and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Deadman Humour

    Thirteen Fears of a Clown

    by Dave Higgins, R.M. Mizia, Henry Snider, Steven Pirie, Donna J.W. Munro, Christopher Stanley, N.D. Coley, Roger Jackson, Christopher Degni, Lee Glenwright, Samantha Bryant, Charles R. Bernard, Joshua R. Smith, G.K. Lomax ...
    Series series Fears of a Clown
    In a world of shadows, joyful colours are an act of heroism.Modern tales are filled with clowns who invoke fear not laughter: painted grins covering fanged maws; baggy costumes concealing unspeakable horrors; malevolent parodies of nature.But the tools of a clown work for good as well as ill: only a trickster could tweak a monster’s nose; make-up is war paint for the modern age; the devil cannot ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zone Journals

    by Charles Wright ...
    Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profound sense of subliminal order."Called one of our best middle-generation poets, Wright offers as his seventh collection a series of meditations ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD