Disorientations: Groundings

by Jay Wright

Poetry. African American Studies. Drifting from New Mexico with lawman Elfego Baca to Ricardo Molinari's Buenos Aires all the way back to ancient Alexandria, GROUNDINGS offers an erudite and at times dizzying exploration of our mortal limits. Metaphysical in both content and manner of metaphor, these poems are in constant dialogue with the physical sciences, mathematics, and number theory. The result is a startling, quixotic, and truly original poetry.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2013

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

An enchantment, or re-enchantment of science and math languages, through the lore of Elfego Baca, Molinari, Pauline Oliveros, and Neo-platonic guide signs. Yet the poetics seem deeply invested in the 1940s, post-Santayana Cantos. It's a travelogue, an afternoon cerveza. A quite extraordinary vision of the multi-culture, and yet I'd want to put it in relation to Wright's other things. So further commentary will wait on that --

[ethan pickett · Rating 5 out of 5]

woah

[Jack Cunningham · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sublime.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

An astonishing book. Jay Wright is the most important poet writing today.