The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the revelation of a kiosk." With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence: "I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self . . ."

Author: Jay Wright
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 04/01/2008
Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.74w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781564784988


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2008 pg. 20

About the Author

Jay Wright, an African-American poet, essayist, dramaturge, and theologian, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Academy of American Poets awarded Wright the Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement. In bestowing the award, J.D. McClatchy comme