Franz Wright
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Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet.
He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.
Life and career
Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. In 1977, he graduated from Oberlin College.
Wheeling Motel (Knopf, 2009) had selections for the record Readings from Wheeling Motel. Wright wrote the lyrics to and performs "Encounter at 3 a.m." on the Clem Snide's album "Hungry Bird (2009). Wright's most recent book includes Kindertotenwald (Knopf, 2011), a series of sixty-five prose poems concluding with a love letter to his wife, which was written when Wright had terminal lung cancer. The poem received Poetry magazine's top annual literary award for best work published in the magazine in 2011. Buson: Haiku, a collection of translations of 30 haiku by Japanese poet Yosa Buson, was published in a limited edition of a few hundred copies by Tavern Books in 2012.
Knopf, Wright's main publisher, published another full length collection of verse and prose poems, F, which was published in a Boston hospital's ICU after excision of part of a lung. F was the most positive of any Wright's work. Anis Shivani wrote in the Huffington Post, naming it one of the best books of poetry ever written by an American, and he referred to Wright as "our greatest contemporary poet."
Wright composed 15 prose poems from Kindertotenwald for inclusion in a string of improvisational concerts in European venues, arranged by David Sylvian, Stephan Mathieu, and Christian Fennesz.
Wright completed his last book, "Axe in Blossom," which will be published by Knopf prior to his death.
In books including The Best of the Best American Poetry, as well as Czeslaw Milosz's Anthology A Book of Luminous Things Bearing the Unknown: Twenty Years of Image, and American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets.
Wright died of lung cancer at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 14, 2015.
Awards
- 1985, 1992 National Endowment for the Arts grant
- 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1991 Whiting Award
- 1996 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
- 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Walking to Martha's Vineyard