Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Informationen zum Autor Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a 1986 MacArthur Fellowship. Klappentext "Wright invites us to roam the cultures of the transatlantic world, to speak and know many tongues, to partake of the rituals through which we may be initiated into modes of individual and communal enhancement. In yet another age of great uncertainty, Wright enables us to imagine that breaking the vessels of the past is more an act of uncovering than of sheer destruction, and that we need not necessarily choose between an intellectual and a spiritual life, for both can still be had." -- Robert B. Stepto Zusammenfassung 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 . . .”

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jay Wright
• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9781564784988
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-498-8
• Seiten: 76
• Serien: American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature; American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
• Thema: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik