A friend, not a member of Eratosphere, read this thread and remembered that the poem Saint Judas was discussed by Wright in a letter to a publisher:
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And the final poem in the whole book -- 'Saint Judas' -- is both a dramatic monologue (though very short, a sonnet in fact) and a statement about a loving action (i.e., such an action can have moral meaning only if it is performed without hope of reward -- and Judas, who was in the perfect position to perform an action without hope of reward, by his performance of hopeless and despairing love attains what I would hope to regard as sanctity)
A Wild Perfection -- The Selected Letters of James Wright (pg89)
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