Transfigurations Collected Poems by Jay Wright (33 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. This volume contains Jay Wright's previously published collections of poetry, including The Homecoming Singer and Transformations. It reveals the consistency of his theme - the spiritual or intellectual quest for personal development in the African American past and present.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. This volume contains Jay Wright's previously published collections of poetry, including The Homecoming Singer and Transformations. It reveals the consistency of his theme - the spiritual or intellectual quest for personal development in the African American past and present.…

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Condition: New. pp. 640.

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Condition: New. pp. 640.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Transfigurations: Collected Poems. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 640 pages. 6.06x1.14x7.80 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A profoundly original, ambitious and globally minded writer' Rebecca Tamás, Guardian'A writer of serious intellectual depth' Jay BernardFor over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity. Wright's inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational pull has an 'indelible music', transforms life into myth, body into spirit, image into icon, and ritual into collective consciousness. Revelling in the rich interplay between Native American, African American, Latin American, European and West African cultural forms, Wright detangles the threads of these complex historical forces to present a tapestry of the Atlantic World and the people who move within it.Published for the first time in the UK, Transfigurations is the definitive volume that includes all of Wright's 20th century poetry works - The Homecoming Singer (1971), Soothsayers and Omens (1976), Explications/Interpretations (1984), Dimensions of History (1976), The Double Invention of Komo (1980), Elaine's Book (1988), Boleros (1991), Transformations (1997).Transfigurations is a singular opportunity for readers to fully immerse themselves in the sublime imagination of one of the most profound, generous and innovative American poets of all time.'One of the handful of major American poets that we have alive among us' Harold Bloom.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 552 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is an ex-library copy with various markings, a pastedown on rear endpaper, including "withdrawn" stamps. The text body is clean and unmarked. 619 pages.

Condition: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 640 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | 'A profoundly original, ambitious and globally minded writer. these dazzling, questing poems are always seeking to discover how a collective selfhood and identity might come into being' Rebecca Tamás, Guardian<BR>'A writer of serious intellectual depth' Jay Bernard<BR><BR>'The greatest living American poet' Dante Micheaux<BR><BR>For over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity. <BR><BR>Wright's inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational pull has an 'indelible music', transforms life into myth, body into spirit, image into icon, and ritual into collective consciousness. Revelling in the rich interplay between Native American, African American, Latin American, European and West African cultural forms, Wright detangles the threads of these complex historical forces to present a tapestry of the Atlantic World and the people who move within it.<BR><BR>Published for the first time in the UK, Transfigurations is the definitive volume that includes all of Wright's 20th century poetry works - The Homecoming Singer (1971), Soothsayers and Omens (1976), Explications/Interpretations (1984), Dimensions of History (1976), The Double Invention of Komo (1980), Elaine's Book (1988), Boleros (1991), Transformations (1997).<BR><BR>Transfigurations is a singular opportunity for readers to fully immerse themselves in the sublime imagination of one of the most profound, generous and innovative American poets of all time.<BR&gt. …

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 552 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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