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Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Franz Wright )〕 ==Life and career== Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1977. ''Wheeling Motel'' (Knopf, 2009), had selections put to music for the record ''Readings from Wheeling Motel''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=iTunes - Music - Readings from Wheeling Motel by Franz Wright )〕 Wright wrote the lyrics to and performs the Clem Snide song "Encounter at 3AM" on the album ''Hungry Bird'' (2009). Wright's most recent books include ''Kindertotenwald'' (Knopf, 2011), a collection of sixty-five prose poems concluding with a love poem to his wife, written while Wright had terminal lung cancer. The poem won ''Poetry'' magazine's premier annual literary prize for best work published in the magazine during 2011. The prose poem collection was followed in 2012 by ''Buson: Haiku,'' a collection of translations of 30 haiku by the Japanese poet Yosa Buson, published in a limited edition of a few hundred copies by Tavern Books. . In 2013 Wright's primary publisher, Knopf in New York, brought out another full length collection of verse and prose poems, ''F'', which was begun in the ICU of a Boston hospital after excision of part of a lung. ''F'' was the most positively received to any of Wright's work. Writing in the ''Huffington Post'', Anis Shivani placed it among the best books of poetry yet produced by an American, and called Wright "our greatest contemporary poet." In 2013 Wright recorded 15 prose poems from ''Kindertotenwald'' for inclusion in a series of improvisational concerts performed in European venues, arranged by David Sylvian, Stephan Mathieu and Christian Fennesz. Prior to his death, Wright had been working on a new manuscript reportedly entitled either ''Changed'' or ''Siege's End.'' Wright has been anthologised in works such as ''The Best of the Best American Poetry'' as well as Czeslaw Milosz's anthology ''A Book of Luminous Things''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Best American Poetry 2008 )〕 ''Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image'',〔("Language as Sacrament in the New Testament" ) Editor Gregory Wolfe, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8028-6464-2〕 and ''American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franz Wright」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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