Boleros (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)

Jay Wright (born 1934) is an African-American poet, playwright and essayist. Born in New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim. Wright's work is emblematic of what the Guyanese-British writer Wilson Harris has termed the "cross-cultural imagination."

出版者:Princeton Univ Pr

作者:Jay Wright

页数:0

出版时间:1991-04

价格:USD 10.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780691015040

Like Jay Wright's previous poetry, Boleros provokes in the reader "a passion for what is hidden," emphasizing names--of places, muses, saints' days--and the imaginative histories behind them. As always, the linguistic surface changes rapidly as Wright's geographic journeys become explicit explorations of poetic form. Boleros is more than a conventional collection of poems. Each part of the book connects to, engages with, and changes the others, so the book itself becomes a text in motion. These poems perform the creative process itself and succeed exquisitely in making the reader part of that process and its excitement.