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"Wright shrinks back from nothing."�The Village Voice "Wright belongs to a school of exactly one."�The New York Times Book Review "Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle."�The New Yorker "C.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets."�Publishers Weekly A companion to her astonishing collection of proseCooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of beingand seeing, and calls it "the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine." Wright's passion for the genre is pure inspiration, and in her hands the answer to the question of poetryispoetry. From "In a Word": I love the nouns of a time in a place, where a sack once was a poke and native skag was junk glass not junk and junk was just junk not smack and smack entailed eating with your mouth open, and an Egyptian one-eye was an egg, sunny side up, and a nation sack was a flannel amulet, worn only by women, to be touched only by women, especially around Memphis. Red sacks for love and green for money� C.D. Wright's most recent volume,One With Others, was a National Book Award finalist. Among her many honors are the Griffin Poetry Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island.