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Jay Wright (poet)

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339:. In this book, Wright "attempts to bridge past and present and meditates on feelings of exclusion from society or personal identity using geographical settings as backdrops for the autobiographical persona's spiritual, emotional, and intellectual growth." The poem that opens the volume, "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting", has a narrator who is mostly detached from the scene described in the poem and then becomes ironically part of "the uncertain, inconclusive encounter between man and God in a Black church.". The poem suggests an ambiguous, questioning attitude towards traditional religion that is revealed in the congregants' Africanization of Christianity: "They have closed their night / with what certainty they could, / unwilling to change their freedom for a god." Critical reception of 320:, the language, imagery and sensibility have been described as romantic and conventional in nature. In other poems from this collection, however, the tone, style and subject matter are not dissimilar to those found in poems published many years later as regards their concern for religious experience and the exploration of African myth and religion. 199:
When he was in high school, Wright began to play bass, and when Neil Arditi met him in the late 1990s, Wright was still performing as a jazz bassist. Jazz music informs Wright's work and aesthetic in various ways, in poems such as "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting", "Billie's Blues", and "Twenty-Two
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Wright's family origins are emblematic of the multi-cultural nature of his literary work. His mother, Leona Dailey, was born in Virginia and had both African and Native American ancestry, while his father, George Murphy, or Mercer Murphy Wright, as he was also known, claimed African, Cherokee and
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As a young man, Wright played minor-league baseball, appearing in 76 games over two seasons (1953–1954) with the Mexicali Eagles of the Arizona-Texas League and the Fresno Cardinals of the California League. In 1954, Wright abandoned his baseball career to serve in the U.S. Army medical corps in
300:. Wright himself has disowned the book in print, saying that it was not intended as a unified work, but merely as "a group of poems selected from those had on hand". At the time the book was published, Wright was employed on a tour of black schools in the South for the 349:
hailed it as "a tense and memorable collection", in which Wright "is making his way among troubled alternatives", in search of an independent black voice. However, in contrast to Wright's later work, the themes of this book have been described as "conventional".
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Irish roots. Murphy held diverse blue-collar jobs, which included working construction, driving a jitney, and working as a handyman. However, Wright grew up in foster care in Albuquerque, and moved to San Pedro, California, in his teens to live with his father.
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also contrasts the earlier volumes with the poet's later work, saying that one may "accept (and enjoy)" the earlier poems "with fewer questions", in contrast to the esoteric difficulty and rigor of the later poems. Charles H. Rowell associates the poems in
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sees a thematic and technical unity, describing these books as "so remarkably unified and consistent in subject, theme, tone, and technique that they might all constitute a single work." Indeed, Wright himself has suggested that his books up to
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with confessional poetry in its focus on personal, autobiographical experience in contrast to the later poetry, which he characterizes as less immediately personal and grounded more in books and scholarship than in lived experience.
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has argued that Wright's earlier poetry is more closely aligned with "the rebellious mood of the Sixties", referring in particular to the poems "Death as History" and "A Plea for the Politic Man". In his review of the volume
175:, due to his complexity of theme and language, as well as his work's utilization and transformation of the Western literary heritage. Wright's work is representative of what the Guyanese-British writer 1585: 155:. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim, with some comparing Wright's poetry to the work of 293:, which contained 15 poems, published in 1967 by Poets Press. Although this collection has never been republished, some of the poems were included in Wright's first full-length book, 179:
has termed the "cross-cultural imagination", inasmuch as it incorporates elements of African, European, Native American and Latin American cultures. Following his receiving the
204:": "Cigarettes in my mouth / to puncture blisters in my brain. / My bass a fine piece of furniture. / My fingers soft, too soft to rattle / rafters in second-rate halls." 254:, has been read as "a virtual declaration of independence from BAM," addressed directly to LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), the founder of the Black Arts Movement. 219:. He received his BA from Berkeley in 1961, and his MA from Rutgers in 1967. In 1964, he taught English and medieval history for a year at the Butler Institute in 1595: 433: 111: 1533: 1391: 223:, Mexico. After this experience, he returned to Rutgers to finish his MA and begin work on a PhD, but left before completing his doctoral degree. 1124: 246:. Wright has been described as a member of the Black Arts Movement, although in a monograph dedicated to the movement, only Wright's first book, 415:) constitute a unified, ordered series, "a dramatic process, with all its tensions and resolutions." Furthermore, the back cover copy of 2007's 1590: 1456: 973: 952: 835: 692: 675: 655: 635: 615: 584: 505: 1565: 1575: 446: 924: 867: 849: 212: 705: 601: 305: 564: 551: 522: 1518: 1570: 1580: 467: 665: 456: 440: 274: 180: 115: 148: 46: 226:
As a student at Rutgers, Wright lived in Harlem, where he met African-American writers associated with the
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in 2005, Wright is recognized as one of the principal contributors to poetry in the early 21st century.
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Wright, Jay (1987). "Desire's Design, Vision's Resonance: Black Poetry's Ritual and Historical Voice".
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Tremblings of the Postulant". The poet's experience as a jazz bassist is referenced in the poem "
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Okpewho, Isidore (1991). "From a Goat Path in Africa: An Approach to the Poetry of Jay Wright".
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Smethurst, James. "The Black Arts Movement and Historically Black Colleges and Universities" in
250:, is discussed in connection with the group. Indeed, Wright's poem "Idiotic and Politic", from 1452: 969: 948: 920: 863: 845: 831: 701: 688: 671: 651: 631: 611: 597: 580: 560: 547: 518: 501: 266: 152: 1418: 1364: 1328: 1242: 1186: 896: 783: 754: 729: 543: 270: 172: 56: 1540:"Kenneth Koch and Jay Wright reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 15, 1976" 1528: 369: 312:
thought he ought to have a book of poems; therefore, she helped him publish the book with
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Rowell, Charles H. (1983). "'The Unraveling of The Egg' an Interview With Jay Wright".
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Transfigurations: Collected Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2000.
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Germany until 1957; in this period he was able to travel in many countries in Europe.
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suggests that that volume, together with the eight volumes brought together in
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Pinckney, Darryl (2004). "You're in the Army Now". In Bloom, Harold (ed.).
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Polynomials and pollen: parables, proverbs, paradigms, and praise for Lois
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While some critics argue for a change of direction in Wright's work after
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Upon returning from Europe, Wright studied comparative literature at the
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has called Wright "unequivocally, the greatest living American poet"."
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was positive, and Wright was immediately recognized as a major voice.
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The Black arts movement: Literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
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However, in discussing Wright's first five volumes of poetry, from
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Shaw, Robert B. (1988). "Review of Selected Poems of Jay Wright".
1451:. Bloom's Modern Critical Views. Chelsea House. pp. 27–35. 368:), others find instead continuity and unity in the poet's work. 136: 1529:
Jay Wright's poetry focus of symposium at Washington University
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Welburn, Ron (1993). "Jay Wright's Poetics: An Appreciation".
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The Dramatic Radiance of Number: Selected Plays of Jay Wright
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
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In 1971, Wright's first full-length collection of poetry,
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of Poets Press. In the poems that were not republished in
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Figurations and Dedications: Selected Plays of Jay Wright
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and historically black colleges and universities such as
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Gruen, Erich S. (1970). "Review of Plebs and Princeps".
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Wright, Jay (1991). "The Delights of Memory, II: Doss".
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Over the years Wright has been poet in residence at
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New York: Infobase Publishing, 2011. 647:The Presentable Art of Reading Absence 608:The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two 559:. University of Virginia Press. 1988. 417:The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two 1470: 1468: 1442: 1440: 1354: 1352: 1350: 1314: 1312: 1310: 1308: 1306: 7: 1596:Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico 1212: 1210: 1208: 1172: 1170: 1148: 1146: 1098:Vera M. Kutzinski, β€œJay Wright”, in 1094: 1092: 1090: 1088: 1086: 1084: 1082: 1080: 1040: 1038: 1036: 1034: 466:Lifetime Achievement Award from the 447:L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award 423:, should be read as a single work. 944:The Oxford Book of American Poetry 572:. Princeton University Press. 1991 213:University of California, Berkeley 14: 1390:Kalstone, David (July 30, 1972). 1321:The American Journal of Philology 1287:. Rutgers University Press, 2006. 1270:. Random House, 1974: xvii–xxiii. 830:. Chicago: Flood Editions. 2019. 803:Wright, Jay (2006). "Axiomatic". 700:. Chicago: Flood Editions. 2021. 687:. 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(2003). 718:Balloons: A Comedy in One Act 386:and in the second section of 540:Selected Poems of Jay Wright 534:Explications/Interpretations 528:The Double Invention of Komo 409:Explications/Interpretations 400:The Double Invention of Komo 375:Selected Poems of Jay Wright 333:"The End of an Ethnic Dream" 93:Explications/Interpretations 89:The Double Invention of Komo 1566:American Book Award winners 1012:Academy of American Poets. 947:. Oxford University Press. 667:Disorientations: Groundings 500:. Seven Woods Press. 1976. 487:New York: Poets Press. 1967 1612: 1576:Bollingen Prize recipients 941:David Lehman, ed. 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Albuquerque, New Mexico
English
American
MacArthur Fellowship
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
Bollingen Prize in Poetry
poet
playwright
essayist
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bradford, Vermont
Walt Whitman
T. S. Eliot
Hart Crane
Robert Hayden
Melvin B. Tolson
Wilson Harris
Bollingen Prize in Poetry
Dante Micheaux
The End of an Ethnic Dream
University of California, Berkeley
Rutgers University
Guadalajara
Black Arts Movement
Larry Neal
LeRoi Jones
Henry Dumas
Yale University
University of Dundee
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