Presentable Art of Reading Absence
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 . . .”
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Presentable Art of Reading Absence
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 . . .”
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Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Presentable Art of Reading Absence

by Jay Wright
Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Presentable Art of Reading Absence

by Jay Wright

Overview

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 . . .”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781564784988
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 04/01/2008
Series: American Literature
Pages: 76
Product dimensions: 5.74(w) x 8.24(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a 1986 MacArthur Fellowship.

What People are Saying About This

Robert B. Stepto

Wright invites us to roam the cultures of the transatlantic world, to speak and know many tongues, to partake of the rituals through which we may be initiated into modes of individual and communal enhancement. In yet another age of great uncertainty, Wright enables us to imagine that breaking the vessels of the past is more an act of uncovering than of sheer destruction, and that we need not necessarily choose between an intellectual and a spiritual life, for both can still be had.

Harold Bloom

Jay Wright is one of the five or six living American poets whose work will survive.

John Hollander

Jay Wright is a brilliant and original poet, difficult and allusive, beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains.
— New York Times

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