"Wright shrinks back from nothing." The Village Voice

"Wright belongs to a school of exactly one." The New York Times Book Review

"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle." The New Yorker

"C.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets." Publishers Weekly

A companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not...