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From Casting Deep Shade, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press next month. Wright (1949–2016) was a poet from the Arkansas Ozarks whose 2010 work, One With Others, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Casting Deep Shade is the last work she completed before her death.

Now that I am in California for a few months, my attention is easily diverted by the live oaks, redwoods, sycamores, junipers, cypresses, pines, yews, firs, buckeyes. At the ranch of a friend I said a bit about the beech and she asked whether any grew around here. She knows…

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