Nbsp Deep Measure By Charles Wright &nbsp &nbsp By Robert Hass February 1, 1998 Charles Wright was born in Tennessee. He's lived for some years in Charlottesville, Va. He's a Southern poet whose work has been, for a long time, inflected by his love of Italian poetry and by the rhythms of Ezra Pound, out of which he's made his own music. Some of his best poems come from moments when his ...

One Poem By Charles Wright By Robert Hass April 4, 1999 Here is a poem for Easter from Charles Wright's most recent book, Appalachia (Farrar Straus Giroux). It's the third and final volume in his trilogy of suites of meditative poems that began with Chickamauga and Black Zodiac, which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Wright lives in Charlottesville, Va. In this poem it's the year of the ...