Presentable Art of Reading Absence

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 . . ."

ISBN-13: 9781564784988

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Publication Date: 04-01-2008

Pages: 76

Product Dimensions: 8.24h x 5.74w x 0.25d

Series: American Literature (Dalkey Archive)

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