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Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Presentable Art of Reading Absence - Paperback

by Jay Wright
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jay WrightSeries:American Literature (Dalkey Archive)Publish date:2008-04-01Pages:76
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564784988ISBN-10:1564784983UPC:9781564784988Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.24 x 5.74 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCVCXHKNHM
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the revelation of a kiosk." With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence: "I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self . . ."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781564784988ISBN-10:1564784983UPC:9781564784988Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.24 x 5.74 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCVCXHKNHM

Jay Wright, an African-American poet, essayist, dramaturge, and theologian, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Academy of American Poets awarded Wright the Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement. In bestowing the award, J.D. McClatchy comme

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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