Franz Wright
Franz Wright
Reading Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010
- Introduction
- "Years" (by Jon Anderson) and Untitled Prologue, "Tell them what I can tell nobody..."
- "The Yes"
- "Deep Revision"
- "I Don't Know How to Tell You This"
- "Kore"
- "The Scar's Birthday Party"
- "History"
- "Can You Say That Again"
- "Song"
- "I Dreamed I Met William Burroughs" and "Leave Me Hidden"
- "Roadside Grave: February 2, 2009"
- "The War"
Introduction-4857
by Chris Nelson
"Years" (by Jon Anderson) and Untitled Prologue, "Tell them what I can tell nobody..."-4858
"Years": Anderson, Jon. The Milky Way: Poems 1967-1982. New York: The Ecco Press, 19823. Originally published in In Sepia (1974).
Untitled Prologue: Unpublished.
"The Yes"-4859
Wright, Franz. Kindertotenwald. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
"Deep Revision"-4860
Wright, Franz. Kindertotenwald. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
"I Don't Know How to Tell You This"-4861
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Wright, Franz. Kindertotenwald. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
"Kore"-4862
Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Wright, Franz. Kindertotenwald. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
"The Scar's Birthday Party"-4863
Wright, Franz. 7Prose. Grosse Pointe Farms: Marick Press, 2011.
"History"-4864
Differs from published version.
Annotation:
Wright, Franz. Kindertotenwald. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
"Can You Say That Again"-4865
Wright, Franz. 7Prose. Grosse Pointe Farms: Marick Press, 2011.
"Song"-4866
Wright, Franz. Kindertotenwald. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
"I Dreamed I Met William Burroughs" and "Leave Me Hidden"-4867
Wright, Franz. Leave Me Hidden. Grosse Pointe Farms: Marick Press, 2010.
"Roadside Grave: February 2, 2009"-4868
Published version bears the title "Roadside Grave: February." Differs slightly from published version.
Annotation:
Wright, Franz. "Roadside Grave: February." Cerise Press 3.7 (2011). Print.
"The War"-4869
Wright, Franz. Leave Me Hidden. Grosse Pointe Farms: Marick Press, 2010.
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Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
In his first visit to Tucson, Franz Wright reads prose pieces, most of which were unpublished at the time of his reading, as well as several lineated poems. He comments generously on his writing process and friendships with other poets.

- humor
- nature
- family
- birds
- adolescence
- prose poem
- death
- lyric
- mythology
- narrative poetry
- outdoors
- dreams
- violence
- loneliness
- lyric poetry
- animals
- parents
- fathers
- daughters
- confessional poetry
- mortality
- childhood
- prose poetry
- girlhood
- frank stanford
- autobiographical
- the body
- writing
- rape
- sadness
- persephone
- mothers
- owl
- profanity
- girls
- owls
- dreaming
- consciousness
- the human condition
- Jon Anderson
- William Burroughs
- Aspergers Syndrome
- hearing loss
- dark humor
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