About the Book: Axe in Blossom: Last Poems and Fragments
The Pulitzer Prize winners final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance
and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the
broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for
"His lines glow with the light of honesty and self-deprecation." —The New
Yorker
"His hands strip poetry to its nub." —Los Angeles Times
"Reading Wright is like walking through a plate-glass window on purpose. . . .
The shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking." —Chicago Tribune
"My death is in the second drawer, " writes Franz Wright. "While youre standing
there,