Charles Wright: Quick Facts

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Born	August 25, 1935 (age 91) • Tennessee
Title / Office	poet laureate (2014-2015)
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize (1998) • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1993)
Notable Works	“Black Zodiac” • “Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems” • “Caribou” • “Chickamauga” • “Country Music” • “Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright” • “Self Portrait” • “The Southern Cross” • “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Selected poems, 1980–1990” • “Zone Journals”