Jay Wright
Praise for Transfigurations
A substantial collection of work. [Wright’s] forcefully musical rhythms drive even poems of everyday experience—such as waiting outside church on a warm night—to a pleasingly contradictory transport. A ...
The New Yorker
One of the most innovative and visionary poets in the American and African-American traditions... [Transfigurations] synthesises Wright's philosophical and transcultural explorations with a dazzling ...
John Keene, author of Counternarratives
Jay Wright is a brilliant and original poet… beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains
John Hollander, The New York Times
A substantial collection of work. [Wright’s] forcefully musical rhythms drive even poems of everyday experience—such as waiting outside church on a warm night—to a pleasingly contradictory transport. A ...
The New Yorker
One of the most innovative and visionary poets in the American and African-American traditions... [Transfigurations] synthesises Wright's philosophical and transcultural explorations with a dazzling ...
John Keene, author of Counternarratives
Jay Wright is a brilliant and original poet… beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains
John Hollander, The New York Times
A substantial collection of work. [Wright’s] forcefully musical rhythms drive even poems of everyday experience—such as waiting outside church on a warm night—to a pleasingly contradictory transport. A ...
The New Yorker
One of the most innovative and visionary poets in the American and African-American traditions... [Transfigurations] synthesises Wright's philosophical and transcultural explorations with a dazzling ...
John Keene, author of Counternarratives
Jay Wright is a brilliant and original poet… beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains
John Hollander, The New York Times