Reviews for World of the Ten Thousand

The average rating for World of the Ten Thousand based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-05 00:00:00 Richard Lewis The heart of this volume is made up of long journal-like dated entries in free verse. Deliciously absorbing and meditative, they concern themselves with landscapes and the natural world, with ideas, memory, and autobiography. I think of poetry as a kind of wisdom. I get the idea Wright dedicates his poetry to this purpose. His type of extended meditation lends itself to slow, reflective reading. These poems won't be hurried. It'll take years to digest what Wright's saying here, and I like that about the poems, that they're slow to reveal themselves, like haze burning away from a muted morning to become brightness and vibrant color. As a teenager discovering poetry, I cut my teeth (broke some, too) on Eliot and have continued reading him my whole life. I think with Charles Wright I've found a poet I can read with the same devotion and reward that revisits to The Waste Land and Four Quartets have always afforded me. As Eliot accompanied my youth Wright may look over my seniority. I believe I can stand in the middle of his poetry and see new revelations.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-20 00:00:00 Joseph Melanson "What makes us leave what we love best? / What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself / When we need it most, / That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake / And holds us flush there / until we begin to love it / And have to begin again? / What is it within our own lives we decline to live / Whenever we find it, / making our days unendurable, / And nights almost visionless? / I still don't know yet, but I do it."