{"product_id":"book-vb3m","title":"Axe in Blossom","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize winner’s 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His hands strip poetry to its nub.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading [Wright] is like walking through a plate-glass window on purpose… . The shattering sound you heard was your own heart breaking.”\u003ci\u003e —Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“My death is in the second drawer,” writes Franz Wright. “While you’re standing there, would you mind getting me one?” It is a thrill to be back in these cadences, in his world of exquisite solitude, as he ponders becoming a ghost and returning to a childhood room where, he says, “I won’t have written any of it. \/ I will have back the rights \/ of anonymity,” and there is nothing left that anyone can take from him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWright’s significant themes shine forth: radical acceptance of his own pain, mental illness, and loss; his belief in the poem’s ability to rhyme with the mysteries of our worldly suffering; his nearly surreal vision of Christian grace. But most powerful for readers will be the tender force of his imagery—the “green vesperal rain at the screen,” the “long Jeffersonian \/ $2-bill- \/ tinted twilight”—and, as he invites us to join him in his nicatorium, the smoking-porch of recovering addicts, the joy of finding this black-humorous voice still alive on the page to meet us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCover photo by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67151242101040,"sku":"BDvb3m","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vb3m-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782509777","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vb3m","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}