1984, ISBN: 9780691014357

Jay Wright, an eclectic poet attentive to the black traditions binding the Americas to West Africa, is also profoundly influenced by Latin American cultures. Drawing on the history of his… Meer...

Jay Wright, an eclectic poet attentive to the black traditions binding the Americas to West Africa, is also profoundly influenced by Latin American cultures. Drawing on the history of his childhood home in New Mexico, he has other models as various as Dante's Commedia, Marcel Griaule and his team of French anthropologists, Suzanne Langer, J.B. Danquah's Akan Doctrine of God, and American jazz discourses. This selection of Wright's work from the publication of his first full-length book The Homecoming Singer in 1971 up to the present represents the range and power of his mythopoetic imagination and his concern for the fate of culture. In a 1984 interview Wright explained his goals as follows: "A young man, hearing me read some of my poems, said that I seemed to be trying to weave together a lot of different things. My answer was that they are already woven, I'm just trying to uncover the weave." These poems exemplify Wright's "uncovering" of the multicultural process of human history, seen by the poet on a loom of transatlantic traditions. Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

1987, ISBN: 9780691014357

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Book. As New. Soft cover. Octavo, dark blue illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 197 pp. With Introduction by Robert B. Stepto and an afterwor… Meer...

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Book. As New. Soft cover. Octavo, dark blue illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 197 pp. With Introduction by Robert B. Stepto and an afterword by Harold Bloom. The first selected poems by this MacArthur Award winning African-American poet and playwright. A very tight, clean, square, stiff, crisp, sharp, bright, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE. AS NEW. Uncommon.., Princeton University Press, 1987<

1987, ISBN: 0691014353

[EAN: 9780691014357], Used, good, [PU: Princeton University Press], Item may show signs of shelf wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Includes supplemental or companion… Meer...

[EAN: 9780691014357], Used, good, [PU: Princeton University Press], Item may show signs of shelf wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Includes supplemental or companion materials if applicable. Access codes may or may not work. Connecting readers since 1972. Customer service is our top priority.<

ISBN: 9780691014357

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ISBN: 9780691014357

Softcover book. 216 pages. Published by Princeton University Press Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]