James Arlington Wright was an American poet. James Wright was born on 13 December 1927 and spent an unhappy childhood in Martins Ferry, Ohio . Wright's early poetry is relatively conventional in form and meter, especially compared with his later, looser poetry.
Although most of his fame comes from his original poetry, Wright made a contribution to another area or literary modernism- the translation.
His work with translations of German and South American poets, as well as the poetry and aesthetic position of Robert Bly, had considerable influence on his own poems; this is most evident in The Branch Will Not Break, which departs radically from the formal style of Wright's previous book, Saint Judas. In addition to his own poetry, he also published loose translations of René Char's hermetic poems.
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