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<div>Free and open to the Public:</div>
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<strong>Jay Wright, Poetry Reading</strong>
<div class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing">Monday, October 1, 5:00 PM</div>
<div class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing">Linsley-Chittenden Hall, room 317</div>
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<div class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><em>The John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Series
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<div class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing"><em>of the Department of English</em></div>
<div class="x_x_MsoNoSpacing">Contact: <a class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk941224" href="mailto:richard.deming@yale.edu" previewremoved="true">
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<div>Frequently described as a “poet’s poet,” Jay <span class="highlight" id="0.3986710716554336" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
Wright</span> has quietly built an impressive career as one of America’s leading African-American voices. His work, praised for its evocative language, introspective tone, and mythological imagery, has won many honors, including the Lannan Literary Award for
Poetry, Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, and Yale’s prestigious Bollingen Prize.
<span class="highlight" id="0.2815837827462555" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Wright</span>’s plays, essays, and poetry generally focus on a rediscovery of African-American heritage through historical study and personal experience. His poetry, often autobiographical
and allegorical in nature, has been compared to the work of <a title="Original URL: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81338
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T. S. Eliot</a>, <a title="Original URL: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=7388
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Walt Whitman</a>, and <a title="Original URL: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1491
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Hart Crane</a>, and shows influences as various as Dante, Nicholas Guillen, Alejo Carpenter, St. Augustine, and the West African griot tradition. A recurring theme in
<span class="highlight" id="0.08562959957706284" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Wright</span>’s poetry is the attempt to overcome a sense of exclusion, whether from society or one’s own cultural identity, and to find growth and unity through a connection between
American society (the experience of the present) and African traditions (the heritage of the past). Weaving together various world mythologies and cultures,
<span class="highlight" id="0.8048979229100743" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Wright</span>’s poetry reflects the influence of his birthplace in the American Southwest, as well as the heritage of his African ancestry. His poems explore history from this multicultural
standpoint and often take the form of allegorical journeys and spiritual quests.</div>
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