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