Boleros
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Book Overview
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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:069101504X
ISBN13:9780691015040
Release Date:March 1991
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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A wonderful & complex suite of poems.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
The most recent book from Jay Wright is a wondeful & complex suite of poems. His work is transparent & concrete. Transparent in that one finds that elusive character commenting on the observations of a particular place. Concrete through the profundity of his philosophical investigations. Wright delivers here one of his very best "collections". These are not separate poems, but an interlocking system of "thought experience". If you are looking for an introduction to Wright's work, I would suggest the Selected Poems, but if you are familiar with this most elegant of poets, you will love this "set".
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