Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbreaking and majestic series. This final book in Wright's great work reveals a master's confrontation with his own mortality and his stunning ability to discover transcendence in the most beautifully ordinary of landscapes.
"Has any other American poet been writing as beautifully and daringly over the past twenty-five years as Charles Wright? Possibly. But I cannot imagine who it would be. . . . [Wright] plumbs our deepest relationships with nature, time, love, death, creation."
Philip Levine, American Poet citation for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
"In an age of casual faithlessness, Wright successfully reconstitutes the provocative tension between belief and materialism."