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The two major movements in American poetry of the 1960s that would influence the poetry of the next decade were, without a doubt, Confessionalism and the Deep Image movement.  These two movements would have a deep and lasting impact on the young writers of the seventies and beyond.  The work of Charles Wright seems to show”"over the course of time”"a kind of hybridization of these two movements: in his later work in particular we see a penchant for both the importance of image, and a willingness to be "self-revelatory."   In his earlier work though (and for purposes of this study, I use the poems anthologized in Country Music his collected early poems) we see the particular influence of the Deep Image movement as well as the phrasing of the country music he listened to growing up and we see a blueprint for the metamorphosis of American poetry in that decade.

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