RECURRING AWAKENING by FRANZ WRIGHT
“Franz wrote fearlessly about mental illness, addiction, and loneliness, as well as about
faith and the unending beauty of his world, no matter how broken; he never wrote
a line that wasn’t fiercely important to him, musical, as witty as it was deadly serious.
Franz lived for poetry—at times it seemed it kept him alive—and he managed to write
poems in which the choice to live feels continually renewed, not just an urgent daily
requirement for the poet but a call to arms that includes every single reader.” –
Poets.org
Chapbook written shortly before his death in 2015. Picture: Franz Wright, 2004, when he won
the Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Credit: Aaron Skinner
$10 (print copy)
