Bøger af Jay Wright

'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'The 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), Soothsayers and Omens (1976), Explications/Interpretations (1984), Dimensions of History (1976), The Double Invention of Komo (1980), Elaine's Book (1988), Boleros (1991), Transformations (1997).Transfigurations is a singular opportunity for readers to fully immerse themselves in the sublime imagination of one of the most profound, generous and innovative American poets of all time.

RELEASING JANUARY 1st, 2024! Alan Augustine hasn't been lucky in a long time, so when a too-good-to-be-true business venture drops in his lap, he snatches it up. Unfortunately, a few old clients aren't thrilled. And he can't seem to stop seeing grim omens in his tarot.Bad Romance features Alan Augustine in his first full-length adventure and is heavily influenced and inspired by the music of pop, punk, and emo artists like Marianas Trench, Good Charlotte, Smashmouth, Madonna, and Lady Gaga.

Where there's demons there's bound to be Hunters, and in New York there's no shortage of either. Jasper Craig is a Hunter at St. James Academy and he's one of the best. With superior strength, agility, and a handy ability to sense demonic energy, it's like he was born for the job. But when he's tasked with going undercover to trick a rare and dangerous werespider, Jasper begins to question the widsom of the organization that raised him. Strangers in the Night is a tense, action-filled urban fantasy, a story of self-discovery set in a world where things are not always what they seem, and where the lines between good and evil are hard to draw.

Soft-bound book with BLACK & WHITE images inside. A hilarious, tongue-in-cheek book for guitar players and collectors who suffer from Guitar Acquisition Syndrome. It contains insights, tips, confessions, and stories from over 200 "afflicted" enthusiasts from 23 countries. "GAS" has now sold thousands of copies in over 20 countries & in Puerto Rico. The perfect all-occasion gift for any guitar enthusiast. All royalties from this book are used to buy guitars for deserving guitar enthusiasts. 16 guitars have been donated to date.

This volume contains Jay Wright's previously published collections of poetry, including "The Homecoming Singer" and "Transformations". It reveals the consistency of his theme - the spiritual or intellectual quest for personal development in the African American past and present.

"Wright invites us to roam the cultures of the transatlantic world, to speak and know many tongues, to partake of the rituals through which we may be initiated into modes of individual and communal enhancement. In yet another age of great uncertainty, Wright enables us to imagine that breaking the vessels of the past is more an act of uncovering than of sheer destruction, and that we need not necessarily choose between an intellectual and a spiritual life, for both can still be had." -- Robert B. Stepto

This work is configured to encourage members of the academic community to consider initiating a part-time consulting practice in their areas of knowledge. Professor Wright provides a step-by-step program for developing a consulting niche that will be valuable to clients and competitive with other consultants. The information offered ranges from how to interpret body language during meetings and how to set fees, to how to conduct the project and how to provide feedback to the client at the conclusion of the project. Professor Wright also examines the issues of ethics in the consulting profession, and addresses the specific problem applicable to academics: how to manage a successful scholarly career with a profitable, interesting consultancy.