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Spring 2007 • Vol. XXIX No. 2 • Book Reviews |

Listening to the Mourners

A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright. Edited by Annie Wright and Saundra Rose Maley, with Jonathan Blunk. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 633 pp. $40.00.

Selected Poems by James Wright, edited by Robert Bly and Annie Wright. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 138 pp. $13.00.1

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