Polynomials and Pollen: Parables, Proverbs, Paradigms and Praise for Lois

by Jay Wright

Overview

A gift for his wife, Jay Wright’s Polynomials and Pollen explores the complementary exigencies of abstraction and physicality. In five sections, each arranged under the aegis of a tutelary concept—from the Yoruba, Akan, Bamana, and Náhuatl—the book is a constellation of protophilosophical inquiry into notions of order, disarray, evidence, flowering, and return; it is also a dynamically visceral work whose feelingtones register rage as well as devotion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564784995
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2008
Series:	American Literature
Pages:	121
Product dimensions:	5.24(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a 1986 MacArthur Fellowship.

What People are Saying About This

Robert B. Stepto

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.

Harold Bloom

Jay Wright is one of the five or six living American poets whose work will survive.

John Hollander

Jay Wright is a brilliant and original poet, difficult and allusive, beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains.
— New York Times