‘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

'A writer of serious intellectual depth' Jay Bernard

‘The greatest living American poet’ Dante Micheaux

For over half a century, Jay Wright’s poetry has been celebrated for its awareness of the diversity of human experience and identity. Wright’s unwavering lyrical voice, whose gravitational pull has an ‘indelible music’, transforms life into myth, body into spirit, image into icon, and ritual into collective consciousness. Celebrating the rich interplay between Native American, African American, Latin American, European and West African cultural forms, Wright unravels the threads of these complex historical forces to present a tapestry of the Atlantic World and its people.

Published for the first time in the UK, Transfigurations is the definitive collection that includes all of Wright’s 20th-century 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 offers a unique 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.

Pages: 640, Dimensions: 15.4x15.4cm