Beforelife Poems

"When Franz Wright is at his best (which is not infrequently) his poems will burn themselves onto the backs of your eyeballs. In THE BEFORELIFE he offers us a singular volume of woeful prayers written in his spare style, prayers that, echoing Shakespeare's maxim 'the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children,' seemingly chase his father's ghost on a binge of heroin, pot, codeine, booze, and more. Wright's work is confessional in the best sense: intimate, beseeching, and even occasionally maudlin. It is also, despite recent appearances in The New Yorker, vastly under-appreciated, relegated to a somewhat cult following."Wright, Franz is the author of 'Beforelife Poems', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375709432 and ISBN 0375709436.