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This updating of our previous title, The Point Where
All Things Meet, which Tom Andrews edited in 1994, selects
from the contents of that earlier book and adds many new
essays that have appeared in the interim. The result is
a complex and generous survey of Charles Wright's "trilogy
of trilogies," the sweeping project encompassed in
the selected volumes comprised by Country Music (1982),
The World of the Ten Thousand Things (1990), and Negative
Blue (2000).
Adam Giannelli has organized the contents of High
Lonesome into two large sections: the first presents selected reviews
of Wright's individual books; the second brings together
essays that cover larger areas of his work. The contributors
include David Baker, Calvin Bedient, Christopher Buckley,
Bonnie Costello, Stephen Cushman, Mark Jarman, David Kalstone,
Adam Kirsch, James Longenbach, J. D. McClatchy, James McCorkle,
Carol Muske-Dukes, David St. John, Sherod Santos, Peter
Stitt, Lee Upton, and Helen Vendler. The result is a book
that will serve both to introduce the scope and achievement
of Wright's thirty-year project to new readers and to deepen
and enhance the appreciation of those already familiar
with it.
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