This haunted, elegiac book could not have been more beautiful.

James Longenbach

In an age of casual faithlessness, Wright successfully reconsitutes the provocative tension between belief and materialism.

Albert Mobilio

There are precious few contemporary poets in whose work I find as much sheer wisdom as in Wright's . . . His ascetic discipline is an instruction and an aesthetic. The whole world seems to orbit in a kind of meditative, slow circle around Wright's grave influence.

David Baker

Black Zodiac concentrates Charles Wright's considerable poetic endowment into a new poignance that has to be termed religious. Some of the poems achieve an authentic gnosis in a rapt mode of negative transcendence.

Harold Bloom