Bloom's Modern Critical Views - Jay Wright (2004) (313p) [Inua].pdf

Jay Wright (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Hardcover – Bargain Price, October, 2003
by Harold Bloom (Editor)

Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L) (October 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 079107661X

Editor’s Note
My Introduction was first published in 1998 in an edition of 110 copies designed, printed, and bound by Ken Botnick for Washington University Library Special Collections, St. Louis, under the title, Jay Wright: The American Sublime Ode; the Black Limbo.
Darryl Pinckney, confessing that he is at sea, is washed away by Jay Wright’s difficult and pungent The Double Invention of Komo.
African religion and myth, central to Wright, is accurately viewed by Gerald Barrax, who judges Wright’s first five books to be essentially religious poetry, while Robert B. Stepto lucidly introduces all of Wright’s work as an ongoing process of making us whole.
Wright’s leading scholar, Vera M. Kutzinski, analyzes the superb early poem, “Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City.”
A very useful interview with the poet is conducted by Charles H. Rowell, after which Vera M. Kutzinski returns with an exposition of Jay Wright’s poetics.
Robert B. Shaw confesses himself defeated by the Selected Poems, while Isidore Okpewho bravely sketches some of the complexities of Dogon and Bambara mythology that are crucial to apprehending Jay Wright.
In an appreciation, Ron Welburn focuses upon Wright’s poetic voice, after which Paul Christiansen struggles with the poet’s spiritual stances.
Poet-critic John Hollander, reviewing the collected poems, Transfigurations, cogently emphasizes Wright’s relationship to late Romantic poetry, including the work of Robert Hayden and Hart Crane.
In the finest and most advanced criticism yet devoted to Jay Wright, Steven Meyer concludes this book by praising this great poet’s mastery of an authentic, inventive formalism.