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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for Poetry | 2020 | Shortlist | |
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry | 2010 | Winner |
About This Book
C.D. Wright's long poem reconstructs the life of a white civil rights activist in segregated Arkansas who marched with Black protesters in 1969, drawing on oral history and documentary materials. Winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry.
About the Author
C. D. WrightAmerican
Carolyn D. Wright (1949–2016) was an American poet born in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She published over a dozen books of formally innovative poetry, often blending documentary elements with meditations on the American South, race, and incarceration, and taught at Brown University as the Israel J. Read more →
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