Appalachia
/ Charles Wright
- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1998.
- 67 p. ; 22 cm.
Appalachia continues Wright's investigation of the relationships among landscape, language, and the metaphysics of identity. "Nothing's more abstract, more unreal/ than what we actually see," the poet writes, and these meditative lyrics set out to prove the point in words, a "desperate alphabet" no less chimerical than the shifting terrain it strains to articulate.