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Franz Wright, born in Vienna in March 18, 1953, won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book Walking to Martha's Vineyard (ISBN 0-375-41518-1), published in 2003. He is a 1977 graduate of Oberlin College. Franz Wright and his father, James Wright, are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category (Poetry). Denis Johnson said this about Wright's book Entry in an Unknown Hand: "These poems break me, they're like tiny jewels shaped by blunt, ruined fingers -- miraculous gifts." William Logan said in a review of Walking to Martha's Vineyard for the New Criterion: "This poet is surprisingly vague about the specifics of his torment (most of his poems are shouts and curses in the dark). He was cruelly affected by the divorce of his parts, though perhaps after forty years there should be a statute of limitation...'The Only Animal,' the most accomplished poem in the book, collapses into the same kitschy sanctimoniousness that puts nodding Jesus dolls on car dashboards."
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