James Wright was a towering figure in American literature during the last half of the previous century. Wright's poetry represents his quest for an ecstatic union with nature, a quest repeatedly thwarted by the brutalities of industrialism and urbanization. Challenging America to define its values, his poems assert a sense of brotherhood with society's outsiders--the criminals, vagabonds, and the working poor who constitute America's underclass.

From the Other World contains elegies and tributes from many of Wright's contemporaries, among them David Budbill, Robert Bly, Richard Hugo, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, Stanley Plumly, Gibbons Ruark, C. K. Williams, and Sander Zulauf. These poems are gathered together for the first time in From the Other World, and they offer valuable insights into the relationships among America's finest poets of recent decades. Interspersed with these are other poems by a newer generation of writers influenced by James Wright's work.

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