SOURCE: A review of The World of Ten Thousand Things, in America, April 25, 1992, pp. 361-62.

In the following review of The World of Ten Thousand Things, Unsino concludes that Wright's poetry lacks analysis and a guiding artistic aim.

These are the journals [The World of Ten Thousand Things] of a poet who believes he is in paradise, and landscapes are his rambling theme. The volume includes three books previously published, The Southern Cross, The Other Side of the River, and Zone Journals, reals, and one published only in a limited edition, Xionia. Charles Wright at his best is like his own hermit crabs of “New Year's Eve, 1979,” spinning across the floors of their tidal pools: “Their sky is a glaze and a day. … / What matters to them is what comes up from below, and from out there / In the deep water, / and where the deep water comes from...