{"id":1474,"date":"2014-06-13T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:12:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:12:43","slug":"charles-wright-in-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/charles-wright-in-the-new-yorker","title":{"rendered":"CHARLES WRIGHT IN THE NEW YORKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">JUNE 12, 2014<\/span><br \/>\nPOSTED BY PAUL MULDOON<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/CharlesWright-290%20%281%29.jpeg\" width=\"290\" height=\"370\" \/><br \/>\nCharlesWright<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re delighted by the appointment of Charles Wright <!--more-->as poet laureate. Wright has had a long association with the magazine, and we\u2019ve been proud to publish many of his poems in our pages. It\u2019s no accident that the name Wright means a craftsman or an artisan, particularly a worker in wood, and Charles Wright has shown himself to be a first-rate laborer. Not that there\u2019s anything in the least labored or laborious about what he does; rather, Charles Wright has the ability to reinvent the wheel and set it spinning. In \u201cSunlight Bets on the Come,\u201d published in the magazine in 2007, he writes:<\/p>\n<p>The basic pleasures remain unchanged,<br \/>\nand their minor satisfactions\u2014<br \/>\nChopping wood, building a fire,<br \/>\nWatching the elk herd<br \/>\nsplinter and cruise around the outcrop of spruce trees<br \/>\nAs the deer haul ass,<br \/>\ntheir white flags like synchronized swimmers\u2019 hands,<br \/>\nSunlight sealing\u2014stretched like Saran wrap\u2014<br \/>\nThe world as we know it,<br \/>\nkeeping it fresh-flamed should tomorrow arrive.<br \/>\nHere is a selection of Wright\u2019s poems from our archive:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDepression Before the Solstice,\u201d June 21, 1976 (subscribers only).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomage to Paul C\u00e9zanne,\u201d December 19, 1977 (subscribers only).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Journal of Southern Rivers,\u201d July 4, 1988 (subscribers only).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVia Negativa,\u201d October 15, 2001 (subscribers only).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Short History of My Life,\u201d January 26, 2004 (subscribers only).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittlefoot, 32,\u201d February 19, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittlefoot, 14,\u201d May 7, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away,\u201d June 30, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Photograph by Holly Wright.<\/p>\n<p>From: http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/06\/minitrue-can-massacre-city-cant-say-word\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 12, 2014 POSTED BY PAUL MULDOON Cha &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/charles-wright-in-the-new-yorker\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[374,375],"views":1556,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}