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An astonishing New World epicof human transfiguration and transformation, of nothing less than the great work of art that is our life among ourselves.' Steven Meyer, Boston ReviewThe greatest living American poet' Dante MicheauxFor over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity. Wright's inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational pull has an indelible music', transforms life into myth, body into spirit, image into icon, and ritual into collective consciousness. Revelling in the rich interplay between Native American, African American, Latin American and West African cultural forms, Wright detangles the threads of these complex historical forces to present a tapestry of the Atlantic World and the people who move within it. Published for the first time in the UK, Transfigurations is a career-defining volume that includes all of Wright's 20th century major poetry works - The Homecoming Singer (1971), S

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7 March 2025
      ISBN-13 9780241747421
      978-0241747421
      ISBN-10 0241747422
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      Book Synopsis
      An astonishing New World epicof human transfiguration and transformation, of nothing less than the great work of art that is our life among ourselves.' Steven Meyer, Boston ReviewThe greatest living American poet' Dante MicheauxFor over half a century, Jay Wright's poetry has been celebrated for its alertness to the multiplicity of human experience and identity. Wright's inexorable lyric voice, whose gravitational pull has an indelible music', transforms life into myth, body into spirit, image into icon, and ritual into collective consciousness. Revelling in the rich interplay between Native American, African American, Latin American and West African cultural forms, Wright detangles the threads of these complex historical forces to present a tapestry of the Atlantic World and the people who move within it. Published for the first time in the UK, Transfigurations is a career-defining volume that includes all of Wright's 20th century major poetry works - The Homecoming Singer (1971), S

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