Franz Wright
Franz Wright
Franz Wrightwas an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 March 1953
CountryUnited States of America
long silence needs
The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
avalanches snowflake individual
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
distance believe one-day
I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
action beyond cared caused certain collapse final lies life poets resulted
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
poetry
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
texts
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
primarily
I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
considered poems ten twelve twenty wrote
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.