Roadside Grave: February

Poetry by Franz Wright

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Franz Wright is the author of several books of poetry. His recent works include God’s Silence, Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for poetry), The Beforelife (also a finalist for the Prize), and Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems. His latest full-length collection, Wheeling Motel, will soon be released as a Knopf paperback. Mr. Wright recently published two chapbooks: Entries of the Cell, a single long poem soon to be collected in F (forthcoming 2013 from Knopf), and 7Prose, a set of prose poems in homage to his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. Other poems in that series, in prose and verse, will be collected this fall in Kindertotenwald.