Download or read book The World of the Ten Thousand Things written by Charles Wright and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Ten Thousand Things gathers The Southern Cross (1981), The Other Side of the River (1984), Zone Journals (1988), and a new group of poems, "Xionia," into one volume, allowing us to see Wright's work of the past decade as, in essence, one long poem, a meditation on self, history, and the metaphysical that is among the most ambitious and resonant creations in contemporary American poetry.