Franz Wright's most recent works include Walking to Martha's Vineyard—which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry—God's Silence, and Earlier Poems. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, and the PEN/Voelcker Prize, among other honours.
He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.
Then let it be done, said the girl to the blinding visitor, according to your word. What else was she going to say right hand held out as if to ward off a blow. So the Word became flesh, for nine human months. And with her still-childlike body, she uttered...
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The Dark Virgin of Guadalupe as a model of contemplative prayer (the second in a two-part Advent series).
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