CHARLES WRIGHT - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 01/27/1979 - HFSID 222685
Price: $200.00
CHARLES WRIGHT
Winner the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Black Zodiac signs this typed note
Typed Note signed: "Charles Wright", 1p, 5½x3½ postcard. Postmarked Irvine, California,
dated in text 1979 January 27. To "Dear John Norbutt" in Brooklyn, N.Y. In full: "I
appreciate your letter about my poems, etc., but wonder if perhaps you have me confused with
another man whose name is also Charles Wright, a Black novelist who lives in New York City. I
suspect he might write poems also. If, in fact, it is really I that you do mean to get in touch with, I
would be glad to answer the couple of questions you sent along. But I just wanted to be sure you
had hold of the right person. Perhaps just telling me the names of the poems you have read would
do it. Anyhow, just so you get what you thought you were getting. All best to you and a wonderful
project." Charles Wright published his first volume of poetry, The Grave of the Right
Hand, in 1970. Despite the modest tone of this note, Wright was already a poet of note when
he sent it, having won the American Poets' Society's Edgar Allen Poe Award (1976), among
other honors. He won the National Book Award in Poetry (1983), as well as the more recent
Pulitzer. Wright, who formerly taught at Iowa, Princeton, Columbia and UC/Irvine, has been
on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1983. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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