"There are precious few contemporary poets in whose work I find as much sheer wisdom as in Wright's . . . His ascetic discipline is an instruction and an aesthetic. The whole world seems to orbit in a kind of meditative, slow circle around Wright's grave influence."
--David Baker, Poetry

As Helen Vendler wrote of Charles Wright's last collection, Chickamauga, his poems "are conceived in a manner that never ceases to astonish...he sounds like nobody else." Entering by way of a small moment, Wright magnifies details to reveal a truth much larger than the quotidian happening that engendered it. The investigations of faith, religion, heritage, and morality in Black Zodiac bring Wright's lyrical meditations to new heights of achievement.