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James Arlington Wright

13 December 1927 – 25 March 1980 / Ohio

Poems of James Arlington Wright

  • A Blessing
  • A Mad Fight Song For William S. Carpenter, 1966
  • A Note Left In Jimmy Leonard's Shack
  • A Poem About George Doty In The Death House
  • A Secret Gratitude
  • A Way To Make A Living
  • A Winter Daybreak Above Vence
  • As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor
  • At The Executed Murderer's Grave
  • Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio
  • Beginning
  • Bologna: A Poem About Gold
  • Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward An Unused Pasture And Invite The Insects To Join Me
  • Fear Is What Quickens Me
  • Goodbye To The Poetry Of Calcium
  • Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon: Christmas, 1960
  • Hook
  • In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned
  • Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy's Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota
  • May Morning
  • Northern Pike
  • On The Skeleton Of A Hound
  • Outside Fargo, North Dakota
  • Rip
  • Saint Judas
  • Sappho
  • Small Frogs Killed On The Highway
  • The Ice House
  • The Jewel
  • The Journey
  • The Lambs On The Boulder
  • The Last Pieta, In Florence
  • The Minneapolis Poem
  • The Secret Of Light
  • To A Blossoming Pear Tree
  • To The Muse
  • To The Saguaro Cactus Tree In The Desert Rain
  • Trying To Pray
  • You And I Saw Hawks Exchanging The Prey
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