Over the years since graduating from Emerson College in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, I have been devotionally collecting the books of poems written by my friend and teacher, Franz Wright.
Today I own seventeen of them: six chapbooks, four paperbacks, and seven 1st edition hardcovers. Listed here chronologically, they are:
1. NO SIEGE IS ABSOLUTE Versions of RENÉ CHAR
(Lost Roads ; no 24) © 1984
2. GOING NORTH IN WINTER *signed*
(THE GRAY HOUSE PRESS) © 1986
3. ENTRY IN AN UNKNOWN HAND *signed* & *inscribed*- "For Shaun, Love Franz"
(MINATOBY PRESS) © 1987 Of one hundred copies numbered & signed this is No. 17
4. Entry in an Unknown Hand
(Carnegie Mellon University Press) © 1989
5. THE UNKNOWN RILKE: EXPANDED EDITION
(Oberlin College Press) Field Translation Series 17 © 1990
6. RORSCHACH TEST
(Carnegie Mellon University Press) © 1995
7. ill lit: Selected & New Poems
(Oberlin College Press) 1st ed. HC © 1998
8. The Beforelife
Poems
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2001) 1st ed. HC © 2000
9. WALKING TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD
POEMS
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) 1st ed. HC © 2003
10. God's Silence
POEMS BY
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2006) 1st ed. HC © 2006
11. THE CATFISH
(Marick Press) 1st ed. chapbook (w/dustjacket) © November, 2007 140/250 copies
12. WHEELING MOTEL
POEMS
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) 1st ed. HC © 2009
13. LEAVE ME HIDDEN
(Marick Press, 2010) 1st ed. paperback © 18 March, 2010
14. 7PROSE
(Marick Press, 2010) 1st ed. paperback © 29 November, 2010
15. ENTRIES OF THE CELL
(Marick Press, 2010) 1st ed. paperback © 19 December, 2010
16. Kindertotenwald
prose poems
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) 1st ed. HC © 2011
17. F
poems
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2013) 1st ed. HC © 2013
