On Charles Wright
Matthew Bevis, 1 April 2021
“... semi-absent presences (‘a kind of half-free verse, I suppose’).Wright’s aim is to create ‘Emily Dickinson on Walt Whitman’s open road, kinetic compression within a more open-ended space’, and this led him to experiment with a split-level line (‘the low rider’, he has sometimes called it): ‘In the world of dirt, each tactile ... ”