Dead

Franz Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, died at 62 years old on Thursday at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts. His publishing house Alfred A. Knopf confirmed the news.

„Franz gave us so much,“ Deborah Garrison, his longtime editor at Knopf, said in an email to The Huffington Post. „He lived for poetry and was a riveting voice — I think the most irreverent believer we ever met on the page. And then the most reverent unbeliever, too, as he surveyed the gifts that life gave even those who are brought low. He wrote fearlessly about mental illness, addiction, and loneliness, but at the same time celebrated the small beauties around him and the larger beauty of language, which truly kept him alive. And so witty! Only Franz could have written ‚The only animal that commits suicide / went for a walk in the park…‘ ! Just to mention one of my favorite examples (‚The Only Animal.‘)“ / Huffington Post