Charles Wright's work centers around a lengthy self-described ""Trilogy of Trilogies"" project consisting of ""Country Music"", ""The World of the Ten Thousand Things"", and ""Negative Blue"". This title offers a study of Wright's body of work. It provides readers an introduction to the books and themes that have defined the poet's illustrious career.

Joe Moffett teaches at the University of Maryland-University College and is an academic advisor in the Department of English and Department of History and Geography at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of The Search for Origins in the Twentieth-Century Long Poem: Sumerian, Homeric, and Anglo-Saxon.