Like Jay Wright's previous poetry, Boleros provokes in the reader "a passion for what is hidden," emphasizing names--of places, muses, saints' days--and the imaginative histories behind them. As always, the linguistic surface changes rapidly as Wright's geographic journeys become explicit explorations of poetic form. Boleros is more than a conventional collection of poems. Each part of the book connects to, engages with, and changes the others, so the book itself becomes a text in motion. These poems perform the creative process itself and succeed exquisitely in making the reader part of that process and its excitement.
- ISBN10 0691068909
- ISBN13 9780691068909
- Publish Date 21 April 1991 (first published 21 March 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 112
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/4766.html