Presentable Art of Reading Absence (American Literature) - Softcover

Wright, Jay

 
9781564784988: Presentable Art of Reading Absence (American Literature)

Inhaltsangabe

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 . . .”

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Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a 1986 MacArthur Fellowship.

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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 users guide to evanescence: I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self . . .

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