Daisy Fried reviews Wheeling Motel, Franz Wright's new book of poetry, in the New York Times.She writes, "Franz Wright is uningratiating, bumptiously witty, inexhaustibly joyless and routinely surprising. Individual moments — this line break, that bit of syntax — fascinate even when individual poems fail to assert themselves as memorable. But Wright’s dark epiphanies, surging sincerities and ironic outbursts build incrementally from poem to poem."
The title poem appeared in The New Yorker in 2007.
