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They provided mankind with wings, despite disappointments and incredible hardships. ... Read more

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Because Charles Wright occupies a large space in contemporary American poetry, it is only natural that his readers over the years have wanted to engage him in conversation and discover more about his career and inspirations. In this collection of richly detailed interviews conducted between 1979 and 2006, Wright eloquently discusses a range of topics, including the beginning of his poetic career in Italy, his experiences at the University of Iowa, the American and European influences on his work, contemporary poets he admires, his place in Southern literature, the art of translating poetry, and such formal matters as his lineation and rhythmic phrasing, his use of syllabics, and the development of his characteristic style. An extensive bibliography of writings by and about Wright supplements the interviews. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal noted: "Wright is one of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music. Following his self-prescribed regimen of purgatio, illuminato, and contemplatio, Wright spins one lovely lyric after another on such elemental subjects as sky, trees, birds, months, and seasons. But the real subject is the thinking process itself and the mysterious alchemy of language: 'The world is a language we never quite understand.'"
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As he juggles his inquiries about language, landscape, memory, and Godthroughout the six groups of short poems that make up Chickamauga,Wright refuses to reach for the easy conclusion. In this, his poems embodyKeats's notion of "negative capability": the ability to consider multipleconcepts without "irritably reaching after fact.""We're placed betweennow and not-now," as he writes in "Reading Lao Tzu Again in the New Year."Wright's scope is admirably broad, and he endows the familiar with newshadows. In "Sprung Narratives" he considers what he's learned in the30 years since a trip to Italy, and concludes, "Unlike a disease,whatever I've learned / Is not communicable." Instead of trying to explainwith a vocabulary wherein "each word / Is a failure," Wright tells himself to:

Sit still and lengthen your lines,
Shorten your poems and listen to what the darkness says
With its mouthful of cold air.

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If Heidegger could write poetry...
his verse would look and sound rather like the lines written by Charles Wright, since here one finds powerful meditations on the thrown-ness of existence; on the way we shape and are shaped by forces and impulses that swirl and rage within and without us; on the depths as well as heights of temporality; and on the fact that there is something when there could have been nothing at all. For some reason, I find myself thinking of the great Welsh poet, RS Thomas, whenever I pause and read Wright. That's probably unfair, but their sense that God is in the silences between noise, in the fissure between what our mind can verify and the demands that are made on our soul -- these things bring them together, at least in my mind. This is a fine collection of poems.

One of the must read poetry books of the last twenty years
Charles Wright's Chickamauga is an outstanding collection of poetry. It is both very modern and deeply traditional in its feelings with parallels to Chinese poetry and to the work of Wallace Stevens. The poems use landscapeand memory of his Italian years to link us to the basic human experiencesof life: ageing, loss etc. They seem a great step forward from his previousbooks, like the Zone Jounals and China Traces, and at least equal to hismost recent book Black Zodiac. I found it both beautiful and deeply moving.

an excellent piece of work to be read by poets and non-poets
Charles Wright`s book of poems is the most moving book of poetry I have read in a long time.He speaks to the soul as well as the heart.My only problem with Charles Wright is he doesn't have any other books out that I can find.Thanks for an enjoyable night of reading your book.I would of given a ten but the book was to short. ... Read more

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High Lonesome is a collection of essays about the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Charles Wright, including selected reviews of the individual books and essays that cover broader issues in his writing. The result is a complex and generous survey of Wright's "trilogy of trilogies," the sweeping project encompassed in the volumes entitled Country Music (1982), The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), and Negative Blue (2000). High Lonesome will serve both to introduce the scope and achievement of Wright's thirty-year project to new readers and to deepen and enhance the appreciation of those already familiar with it.The critics represented include Calvin Bedient, Christopher Buckley, Bonnie Costello, Stephen Cushman, David Kalstone, Adam Kirsch, James Longenbach, J. D. McClatchy, Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Willard Spiegelman, Peter Stitt, Lee Upton, Helen Vendler, and David Young. ... Read more

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This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources and influences, and historical notes. It pays special attention to the way that Wright's poems work together and the links that are formed between them. While each poem is given its own commentary, the author argues that they work together in a concentrated whole to document a man's spiritual journey. ... Read more

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This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources and influences, and historical notes. It pays special attention to the way that Wright's poems work together and the links that are formed between them. While each poem is given its own commentary, the author argues that they work together in a concentrated whole to document a man's spiritual journey. ... Read more

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Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona. But in working for environmental preservation, Bowden refuses to be one who "outline[s] something straightforward, a manifesto with clear rules and a set of plans for others to follow." In this deeply personal book, he brings the Sonoran Desert alive, not as a place where well-meaning people can go to enjoy "nature," but as a raw reality that defies bureaucratic and even literary attempts to define it, that can only be experienced through the senses. Inferno burns with Charles Bowden's passion for the desert he calls home. "I want to eat the dirt and lick the rock. Or leave the shade for the sun and feel the burning. I know I don't belong here. But this is the only place I belong," he says. His vivid descriptions, complemented by Michael Berman's acutely observed photographs of the Sonoran Desert, make readers feel the heat and smell the dryness, see the colors in earth and sky, and hear the singing of dry bones across the parched ground. Written as "an antibiotic" during the time Bowden was lobbying the government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Inferno repudiates both the propaganda and the lyricism of contemporary nature writing. Instead, it persuades us that "we need these places not to remember our better selves or our natural self or our spiritual self. We need these places to taste what we fear and devour what we are. We need these places to be animals because unless we are animals we are nothing at all. That is the price of being a civilized dude." ... Read more

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An artistic and a natural history celebration
INFERNO is a lovely gathering of photos by Michael P. Berman of the desert Southwest, reflecting author Charles Bowden's passion for the land he calls home. INFERNO was written while Boweden was lobbying the government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument: it pairs his nature writing and descriptions with Berman's black and white artistic desert shots and provides both an artistic and a natural history celebration appropriate for collections strong in either topic.

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Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts - an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.

Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity in rural areas. It represents the first systematic analysis of locally based efforts, and includes a comprehensive examination of cases from around the world where the community-based approach is used. The book provides:

• an overview of community-based conservation in the context of the debate over sustainable development, poverty, and environmental decline
• case studies from the developed and developing worlds - Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom - that present detailed examples of the locally-based approach to conservation
• a review of the principal issues arising from community-based programs
• an agenda for future action

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Must read!!
This book is the most complete and intelligent essay I have seen for the past 10 years of work with wildlife conservation and management. Should I have read before, it would have given me more insight in my career. This book is the result of an enormous work load done by scientists, politicians and anthropologists very well compiled in 400 pages. ... Read more

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Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profound sense of subliminal order.
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Highly recommended.
Mr. Wright is a poet of varied and considerable strengths, though his recent work has a tendency to sprawl, both thematically and imagistically. Perhaps this is a necessary component of his style, but it has the unfortunate effectof distracting the reader from the natural depth of his lines. I had the opportunity to publish some of his work as editor of the Oxford Quarterly last year, and I regret that I missed his reading with Mark Strand at KGB (NYC) last night. Unlike many a book of contemporary poetry, I would recommend this book for all readers on the grounds that it is, despite immediate appearances, a delicately crafted and wholly sincere work. No word is misplaced, and that is one of the highest compliments I can pay to a book of any sort. ... Read more

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A biography of the mechanically-inclined Wright brothers, tracing their determined efforts to build the first self-propelled flying machine. ... Read more

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The Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers wanted to build a flying machine from the time they were small boys. Most people thought they were crazy. How could a heavy machine stay up on the air? ... Read more

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Master C# using this resource filled with precise, proven techniques from today's industry experts. Inside you'll find quick and concise solutions that can be put to immediate use easily and effectively. Organized by topic and packed with critical information this is a must-have guide for every C# developer. ... Read more

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With high practical value
I find the more I know the internal of C#, the more I like this book---------if you're a beginer, then come to this book later.

Most worthless programming book I've ever used.
I have a Master's degree in Computer Science with 3 years of programming experience in C++. This book is by far the most useless and horribly written programming book I've ever read. There are 600 pages in this book that tell you absolutely nothing other than how to map very basic C++ operations to C#.

It mentions classes in some chapters that aren't defined until later chapters. When it does mention specific classes, it rarely lists all of their methods in a convenient and easy to read format. Instead, you have to look at the example code and hope there is some type of matching method that may be useful.

It is also missing very important and useful classes such as the DateTime class.

If you strictly want a book that maps basic C++ operations to C#, then this may be for you. Otherwise it is useless as a reference and not very well structured.

Excellent way to move from Visual C++ to C#
Thank you Mr. Wright -- your comparisons between Visual C++ and C# made it very easy for me to move to C# and .NET. Great job.

Perfect for the VB programmer moving to C#
If you have programmed in Visual Basic, Wright make's the transition to C# very straight forward.

Very valuable resource. I like the tip format. Easy to find the info I need.

Filled with hundreds of ready-to-run solutions
Now anyone can start using the powerful C# programming language and .NET platform immediately to develop and deploy enterprise-level solutions with the assistance of Charles Wright's "user friendly" C# Tips & Techniques. Apply C# constructs to existing applications, or build programs quickly from scratch. Incorporating key features from C++ and Visual Basic, C# is a distinct object-oriented language designed to provide both powerful solutions and high productivity. Filled with hundreds of ready-to-run solutions readers can use to build Web services and Windows applications, this guide helps users leverage the power of Microsoft's .NET environment. C# Tips & Techniques is an essential, highly recommended resource and reference to an impressive wealth of specific instructions to answer questions, inform, and help program more effectively. ... Read more

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Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including "The Home Place", also available in a Bison Books edition, and "Field of Vision", which won the National Book Award. Charles Baxter is a professor of English at the University of Michigan and the author of numerous works, including "The Feast of Love". ... Read more

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Neglected Masterpiece
I do not think you'll ever hear the name of Wright Morris mentioned as one of the major American novelists of the late 20th Century. It is a pity! This is a great novel. Those who say it has no plot do not understand that Morris moved to grasp the pace of life itself, and managed to do it apparently effortlessly--though I see a great mastery of form here, absolutely impressive. When you end up in the years the novel was written, you are almost shocked by the feeling of the passing of years. The saga of this Midwestern family is wholly persuading and poetically told, and leaves permanent traces in one's memory, even though there are almost no remarkable events in the story. But does that really matter? This is a slow novel, but life is slow too. We should be grateful to Wright Morris for having sung his plain song so slowly, and so well.

somewhat of a muddle
Plains Song is overall a sound novel, but suffers from some structural problems.It is as if Morris could not figure out the overall trajectory of the plot?Who are the central characters of the novel, and what is the overall conflict to be resolved?There are muddled intentions here, and it shows throughout this work.But overall, Wright is a master at detailing life on the Midwestern plains and the pivotal changes encountered by its inhabitants at the turn of the century.This redeems the novel somewhat, and makes it, if not anything, an interesting artifact.

There goes another one.
A fine novel, a masterpiece of concision, considering the breadth of the story. What saddens me is that there are no other Morris novels in print. This one is no better or worse than any of his other wonderful novels, but evidently rates publication because it has the word "female" in the title. His best novel, The Field of Vision, also won the National Book award. ... Read more