About Franz Wright: Franz Wright was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
