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The Branch Will Not Break | Academy of American Poets

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Born in a factory town in Ohio, James Wright grew up among poverty and desolation, which profoundly influenced his writing. He used his poetry as a mode to discuss his political and social concerns. The subjects of his early work include people who have lost love or have been marginalized from society, and the poems offer the reader a sense of that isolation. His first book, The Green Wall, was selected by W. H. Auden for publication in the Yale Younger Poets Series. With his third book, The Branch Will Not Break, Wright made a significant departure from his two previous volumes, which were both formalist in nature. His new work encompassed a startling mix of careful detail and surprising leaps of thought and structure in loose and open verses. The Branch Will Not Break signaled a new direction that poetry would take towards experimental free verse, a course that critics could only mislabel as "surrealistic" at the time. Influenced by his teachers at University of Washington, Stanley K

Born in a factory town in Ohio, James Wright grew up among poverty and desolation, which profoundly influenced his writing. He used his poetry as a mode to discuss his political and social concerns. The subjects of his early work include people who have lost love or have been marginalized from society, and the poems offer the reader a sense of that isolation. His first book, The Green Wall , was selected by W. H. Auden for publication in the Yale Younger Poets Series. With his third book, The Branch Will Not Break , Wright made a significant departure from his two previous volumes, which were

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