Poets Dante Micheaux and Oluwaseun Olayiwola join Jay Bernard for a reading and discussion of Jay Wright's collected poems, 'Transfigurations'.
'A profoundly original, ambitious and globally minded writer.' Rebecca Tamas, Guardian
'An astonishing New World epic...of human transfiguration and transformation, of nothing less than the great work of art that is "our life among ourselves"' Steven Meyer, Boston Review
Jay Wright is one of the foremost living American poets. In 'Transfigurations', the first UK publication of Wright's work, his first eight books have been collected in a single volume, showing his vast range from quotidian American life to African cosmology. Harold Bloom described his work as "that commodious lyricism I associate with American poetry at its most celebratory." He has been the recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and The Bollingen Prize.
During this event, poets Dante Micheaux and Oluwaseun Olayiwola join Judith E. Wilson fellow Jay Bernard for a reading and discussion of Wright's work.
'The eight books that make up 'Transfigurations' are contemporary classics. Together they form a rare monumental, sensuous force unlike anything else on either side of the Atlantic' Ishion Hutchinson
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