The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

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Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press (Apr 01, 2008)
Poetry, Paperback, 76 pages
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784988
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    Description of The Presentable Art of Reading Absence

    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…

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