Black Zodiac: Poems by Charles Wright (English) Paperback Book

Description: Black Zodiac by Charles Wright Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"Black Zodiac" offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing--lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal verse. As the critic Helen Vendler has observed, Wright is a poet who "sounds like nobody else." Back Cover This thoroughly revised and updated work explores the special education process-from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for children with special needs. Step by step, the authors reveal the stages of identification, assessment, and intervention. They explain the legal rights of children with special needs and show how to become an active, effective member of a childs educational team, whether you are a parent or a teacher. School psychologists Linda Wilmshurst and Alan W. Brue provide significant insight into the special education process, drawing on their more than thirty-five years of working with parents and educators. The Complete Guide to Special Education is filled with valuable tools, checklists, sample forms, and sound advice. In addition, this new edition includes information on Response to Intervention (RTI), which offers a new approach to identifying learning disabilities in the classroom; expanded coverage of autism spectrum disorders and bipolar disorder; and a fully revamped Resources section. Praise for the First Edition "This book tackles [special education] issues in a readable way without oversimplification...I certainly recommend this book to parents, and even to attorneys and advocates, to assist in the process of effective advocacy." - Special Education Law Blog "Families, teachers, counselors [and] administrators will find valuable tools, checklists, sample forms, and advice in this comprehensive, practical, and priceless resource." - Carolina Parent magazine "This is one book that all parents should have in their personal library to better understand special education." - Attention magazine "As a writer and educational specialist who has learning disorders, I found this book indispensable." - ADDitude magazine Author Biography Charles Wright has won, among other honors, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets 1996 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Review "Black Zodiac concentrates on Charles Wrights considerable poetic endowment into a new poignance that has to be termed religious. Some of the poems achieve an authentic gnosis in a rapt mode of negative transcendence." --Harold Bloom "Black Zodiac occupies the position in Wrights career that The Auroras of Autumn holds in Wallace Stevenss: Having long since mastered his characteristic voice, the poet has passed through the terrifying moment when mastery threatens to become mannerism, and he has emerged as a poet whose every line seems completely recognizable and at the same time utterly fresh." --James Longenbach, The Nation "Combines an impeccable musical and prosaic sense with the kind of humility possessed by the masters." --Carol Muske, The New York Times Book Review Prizes Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 1997 Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) 1998 Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 1997 Winner of Ambassador Book Awards (Poetry) 1998 Review Quote Combines an impeccable musical and prosaic sense with the kind of humility possessed by the masters. Excerpt from Book Excerpt from Black Zodiac by Charles Wright. Copyright Details ISBN0374525366 Author Charles Wright Short Title BLACK ZODIAC Language English ISBN-10 0374525366 ISBN-13 9780374525361 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 1998 Residence VA, US Birth 1935 Pages 96 Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Charles Wright Illustrations Illustrations, black and white DOI 10.1604/9780374525361 Subtitle Poems UK Release Date 1998-03-04 AU Release Date 1998-03-04 NZ Release Date 1998-03-04 US Release Date 1998-03-04 Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Publication Date 1998-03-04 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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