A Conversation with Franz Wright

Franz Wright is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry, including Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), The Beforelife (2001), Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (2003), and God’s Silence (2006). He is also the translator of work by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke. In 2004, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for…