Polynomials and Pollen: Parables, Proverbs, Paradigms, and Praise for Lois (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) - Softcover

Wright; Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564784991 ISBN 13: 9781564784995

Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS, 2008

Synopsis

Jay Wright - poet, essayist, playwright - was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1934. He has been the recipient of an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, and numerous others. Most recently, Wright was named the 2005 recipient of Yale University's Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. ""Jay Wright is one of the five or six living American poets whose work will survive."" - Harold Bloom

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Review:

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

"Jay Wright is a brilliant and Original poet difficult and allusive, beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains." -- John Hollander

"Wright is an intellectual poet, a poet's poet, upon whose tabula rasa may be read influences of Dante, Eliot, the African griots, Alejo Carpentier, and Nicolas Guillen."

"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." -- Robert B. Stepto

About the Author:

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 commented, "Jay Wright's books have appeared like summer lightning, sudden and unexpected, brilliant in the surrounding dark." He has written ten books of poetry and a play. Before he became a poet and studied comparative literature, he played semi-pro baseball with the San Diego Padres.

About this edition

• Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1564784991
• ISBN 13: 9781564784995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94