The American Scholar

Ways of Being

n 2019, Forrest Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of poems . The title was a quotation from his wife, the poet C. D. Wright, who died suddenly in 2016. Wright’s final book, , which was published posthumously that same year, bore the dedication, Forrest / Shadowed by Wright’s death, “be with”

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