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Transfigurations Collected Poems

Paperback • 2000 • English

Transfigurations Collected Poems

By Jay Wright

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About the book

Few poets have as much to tell us about the intricate relationship between the African American past and present as Jay Wright. His poems weave a rich fabric of personal history using diverse materials drawn from African, Native American, and European sources. Scholarly, historical, intuitive, and emotional, his work explores territories in which rituals of psychological and spiritual individuation find a new synthesis in the construction of cultural values. Never an ideologue but always a poet ...Show more

Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Poetry by form
Poetry by form: Calligram

Book details

ISBN

9780807126301

Publisher

LSU Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Transfigurations Collected Poems

Format

Paperback

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