Wright, Charles (Penzel), (Jr.)

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WRIGHT, Charles (Penzel), (Jr.)

WRIGHT, Charles (Penzel), (Jr.). American, b. 1935. Genres: Poetry. Career: Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1983-. Member of the English Dept, University of California at Irvine, 1966-83. Visiting Lecturer, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1974-75, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1978, and Columbia University, NYC, 1978. Publications: The Voyage, 1963; 6 Poems, 1965; The Dream Animal, 1968; Private Madrigals, 1969; The Grave of the Right Hand, 1970; The Venice Notebook, 1971; Backwater, 1973; Hard Freight, 1973; Bloodlines, 1975; Colophons, 1977; China Trace, 1977; (trans.) The Storm and Other Poems, by Eugenio Montale, 1978; Wright: A Profile, 1979; Dead Color, 1980; The Southern Cross, 1981; Country Music: Selected Early Poems, 1982; The Other Side of the River, 1984; (trans.) Orphic Songs, 1984; 5 Journals, 1986; Zone Journals, 1988; Halflife, 1988; Xionia, 1990; The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990, 1990; Chickamauga, 1995; Black Zodiac, 1997; Appalachia, 1998; Negative Blue, 2000; A Short History of the Shadow, 2002. Address: 940 Locust Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22901, U.S.A.

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