Franz Wright, the son of James Wright, is a Pulitzer-Prize winning American poet and translator exploring the themes of religion, spirituality, redemption, illness and renewal. He was born in Vienna on March 18, 1953. During his youth, his family moved to the Northwest United States, the Midwest, and northern California. Wright’s deeply spiritual, meditative and minimalistic poetry spans forty years of his personal development as a poet and as a person. His collection of poetry include:
- F (2013)
- Kindertotenwald (2011)
- God’s Silence (2006)
- Walking to Martha's Vineyard (2003)
- The Beforelife (2001)
- Midnight Postscript (1993)
- Tapping the White Cane of Solitude (1976)
The poet has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, among other honors. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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