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The persona in these poems inhabits a psychic hell poignantly familiar to recovering addicts and to "Franz Wright with his suitcase/ of codeine pills." It is a world where a "guy in white" comes "to see/ if you've killed yourself." In this persona, Wright, son of the celebrated poet James Wright, confronts his alcoholism as "the drunk son of a drunk," a lowly "cock...Log In or Sign Up to Read More