The Mailman
Franz Wright, “The Mailman” from Ill Lit: Selected and New Poems. Copyright © 1998 by Franz Wright. Reprinted with the permission of Oberlin College Press.
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Poet Franz Wright b. 1953
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Home Life, Relationships, Jobs & Working, Activities
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Franz Wright’s collections of poetry include The Beforelife (2001), God’s Silence (2006), and Walking to Martha’s Vineyard, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. He has received a Whiting Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for his poetry. Wright has translated poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke and Rene Char; in 2008 he and his wife, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, co-translated a collection by the Belarusian . . .
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SUBJECT Home Life, Relationships, Jobs & Working, Activities
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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