Robert Wrigley
Robert Wrigley's books include Earthly Meditations (Penguin, 2006) Beautiful Country (Penguin, 2010) and Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems, forthcoming from Penguin in the spring of 2013. His awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Kingsley Tufts Award. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Idaho. "Prey" was first published in Shenandoah 46/3.
Reading List
Prey
We’re walking through stubble and rain- hammered grasses, the dog and I. It’s almost dawn, almost December, the western ridge is lipped with snow and already catches early sun. The canyon still deepens to the river’s black sheen. Another rooster …
Nightingale Capability
Italy, May, 2011 We’ve been in Bogliasco a week before we understand the bird that’s wakened us each miserably early morning is a nightingale. I am pleased by this just as I was years ago, when I had my picture …
First Person
One lies on one’s back in the woods, savoring the sun, and for some reason one has opted for what Fowler calls the “false first person pronoun”—one, that is, over the other. One brushes an ant from one’s ear. One …