THE SHAPE OF LIGHT; Introduction by Anne Wright, drawings by Joan Root

Fredonia NY: White Pine Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 47. A fine copy in publisher's wraps. Inscribed by Anne Wright (Wright's widow) to poet William Jay Smith and his wife: To dear Sonja and Bill | with love | Annie" James Arlington Wright (1927 – 1980) was an American poet. Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. His 1972 Collected Poems was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. These prose poems appeared originally in Moments of the Italian Summer [1976] and The Summer of James and Annie Wright [1981].