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Jay Wright

Jay Wright

Cover of Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Dalkey Archive Press

Presentable Art of Reading Absence

Jay Wright

Poetry €13.00

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which the energetic relationship between a meditative body and its universe is not only the envisioning of absence by presence but also vision itself: "Here begins the revelation of a kiosk."

With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence: "I have become attuned / to the disappearance of all things / and of my self . . ."