C.D. Wright reads her poem 'Our Dust' from Like Something Flying Backwards: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2007). C.D. Wright was born and brought up in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, and read with Seamus Heaney at Poetry Now 08 in Dun Laoghaire. This film is from In Person: 30 Poets:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2h5cjDHKCY
and
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248009
For more details of C.D. Wright's Like Something Flying Backwards go to
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247622
Just heard her on the City Arts and Lectures series. What a superb woman. "When my plane goes down, I'll sit with the poets."
lbshore 3 years ago 2