Charles Wright's Bittersweet "Buffalo Yoga"
Buffalo Yoga: Poems by Charles WrightMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Charles Wright's Buffalo Yoga poems contain no buffaloes, but do interweave personal memories with the natural world, history and biography.
"Everything's more essential in norther light, horses/Lie down in the dry meadow,/Clouds trail, like prairie schooners..."
And the losses of the past are like the absence of buffalo from a plain.
"Thus do we take our deaths up on our shoulders and walk and walk,/ Trying to get back
Wright's prosy and natural style still has a subtle eloquence, and only falters a bit in the latter third of the collection. But it is a worth collection, accessible, yet deep.
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