《火焰》是收藏於《WORDS & THE WORLD詞與世界》盒裝叢書裡，此叢書由二十本袖珍版詩選組成，分別收錄來自二十位國際著名詩人的精選作品。
作者簡介
卡洛琳．賴特 C.D. Wright
Carolyn D. Wright (USA) originally come from the Arkansas Ozarks, Caroline D. Wright lives in Rhode Island and is on the faculty at Brown University. She is the author of more than a dozen books and most recently, One With Others: a little book of her days in 2010, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her 2009 book Rising, Falling, Hovering won the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize. With photographer Deborah Luster she published One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, which won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. On a fellowship for writers from the Wallace-Foundation she curated ’Walk-in Book of Arkansas’, a multi-media exhibition that toured throughout her native state. In 2004 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and in 2005 she was given the Robert Creeley Award.
出生於阿肯色州歐薩克，現居羅德島，任教於布朗大學。著作超過十餘本，2010年近作《人在人間：有關她的日子的小書》(One With Others: a little book of her days)獲國家圖書評論獎(National Book Critics Circle Award)。2009年作品《上升，下降，懸空》(Rising, Falling, Hovering) 獲2009年國際格裡芬詩歌獎(International Griffin Poetry Prize)。她與攝影家迪波拉•勒斯特共同出版了《一個大自我：路易士安納的囚徒》(One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana) ，獲杜克大學的紀錄片研究中心的朗格•泰勒獎(Lange-Taylor Prize)。獲華萊士基金會學術獎金，賴特舉辦了名為「走進阿肯色之書(Walk-in Book of Arkansas)」的多媒體展覽，在她出生的阿肯色州巡迴展出。2004年獲麥克亞瑟學者稱號，2005年獲羅伯特•克瑞利獎。
目 錄
1. Flame 火焰
2. What Keeps 留下的東西
3. Gift of the Book 書的禮物
4. Privacy 隱私
5. only the crossing counts. 唯有穿越算數。
6. elation washed over our absence toward everything in the increasing darkness. 欣喜將我們的缺席衝向漸增的黑暗中的一切。
7. Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don’t Understand 像聽到你的名字被用一種你不懂的語言叫出
8. Like a Prisoner of Soft Words 像一個柔軟詞語的囚徒
9. Like Having a Light at Your Back You Can’t See But You Can Still Feel 像你背後有一盞燈你看不見但你仍感覺得到
10. Poem With Evening Coming On 夜晚正開始的詩
11. Country Station Poem 鄉村車站詩
12. Poem With A Dead Tree 有一棵死樹的詩
13. Poem In Which Her Mortgage Comes Due 在其中她的按揭即將到期的詩
14. One night last summer 去年夏天的一夜
15. Unconditional Love Song 無條件的情歌
16. Obscurity and Elegance 晦澀與優雅
17. Obscurity and Empathy 隱晦與移情
