The Branch Will Not Break

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The Branch Will Not Break is a celebrated 1963 poetry collection by American poet James Wright, known for its vivid Midwestern imagery and pivotal role in the development of contemporary American lyric poetry.

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instanceOf book ⓘ
poetry collection ⓘ
author James Wright ⓘ
linked to: James Wright (poet)
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
criticalReception celebrated by critics as a landmark of mid‑20th‑century American poetry ⓘ
genre American poetry ⓘ
lyric poetry ⓘ
hasPoem A Blessing ⓘ
A Dream of Burial ⓘ
A Dream of Love ⓘ
A Dream of My Father ⓘ
A Dream of My Mother ⓘ
A Dream of the Rood ⓘ
A Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle That I Threw into a Gully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent Hour ⓘ
A Prayer to Escape from the Market Place ⓘ
A Small Elegy ⓘ
A Song for the Middle of the Night ⓘ
A Winter Day in Ohio ⓘ
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ⓘ
Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me ⓘ
Fear Is What Quickens Me ⓘ
Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium ⓘ
Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon ⓘ
Hook ⓘ
In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems ⓘ
In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia Has Been Condemned ⓘ
In the Cold House ⓘ
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ⓘ
Milkweed ⓘ
The Jewel ⓘ
The Minneapolis Poem ⓘ
Today I Was So Happy, So I Wrote This Poem ⓘ
Two Hangovers ⓘ
hasStyle imagistic free verse ⓘ
plainspoken diction ⓘ
influenced later generations of American lyric poets ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryMovement postwar American poetry ⓘ
notableFor influence on contemporary American lyric poetry ⓘ
vivid Midwestern imagery ⓘ
partOf James Wright’s poetic oeuvre ⓘ
publicationYear 1963 ⓘ
publisher Wesleyan University Press ⓘ
setting Midwestern United States ⓘ
theme Midwestern working‑class life ⓘ
isolation ⓘ
nature ⓘ
spiritual longing ⓘ

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subject linked to: James Wright (poet)
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James Arlington Wright → notableWork → The Branch Will Not Break ⓘ