
This road’s end was not quickly or easily reached the road was, in fact, many roads, all twisting and turning as if to form a complex pattern visible only from the air.

“How soon we come to road’s end,” Charles Wright begins his poem “Apologia Pro Vita Sua.” Like any career retrospective, Wright’s “Oblivion Banjo” may feel like the end of a road - not in a gloomy sense, but in a sense of fulfillment, a destination achieved. OBLIVION BANJO The Poetry of Charles Wright
