Boleros

By Jay Wright

Book Overview

Like Jay Wright's previous poetry, Boleros provokes in the reader "a passion for what is hidden," emphasizing names--of places, muses, saints' days--and the imaginative histories behind them. As always, the linguistic surface changes rapidly as Wright's geographic journeys become explicit explorations of poetic form. Boleros is more than a conventional collection of poems. Each part of the book connects to, engages with, and changes the others, so the book itself becomes a text in motion. These poems perform the creative process itself and succeed exquisitely in making the reader part of that process and its excitement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101504X
• ISBN13: 9780691015040
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful & complex suite of poems.

The most recent book from Jay Wright is a wondeful & complex suite of poems. His work is transparent & concrete. Transparent in that one finds that elusive character commenting on the observations of a particular place. Concrete through the profundity of his philosophical investigations. Wright delivers here one of his very best "collections". These are not separate poems, but an interlocking system of "thought experience". If you are looking for an introduction to Wright's work, I would suggest the Selected Poems, but if you are familiar with this most elegant of poets, you will love this "set".