Poetry. "THIS IS A GREAT BOOK Jeff Wright has become the first
human being to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Take
that, Equines He did it the poet's way--he crowned himself with
sonnets, and gifted them to the world. Reciprocate his generosity
by reading with your whole body. And they're off "--Bob Holman"In
TRIPLE CROWN, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright goes for the ultimate prize.
He joins the ring for competition in one of the sport's deadliest
events--the sonnet sequence. 'Look for me in the crosswalk
smackdown, ' he writes, aware of the pratfalls. First, the sonnet
was declared dead, then alive, then surging. The 'innocent
euphoria' Wright achieves is not so innocent, but it is euphoric.
From rock and roll (a critic's perspective), to mythology as one's
contacts; from the allegorical to the historical to the legendary
to the underknown, Wright's places are sites of giddy invention,
where the risk of collapse is justified by views from previously
unscaled heights. In TRIPLE CROWN, Wright proves himself worthy of
the title: poet-lover."--Vincent Katz"Jeffrey Cyphers Wright's work
is dazzling, befuddling, up and down, and impossible to crown,
though he writes in the impossible form of the shattered Corona.
His work is full of good humor, but it is also as wildly rumbling
as the elephant in mourning. As archaeologists find new skulls, so
Wright discovers impossible anamorphosis of poetry. The work seems
to come out of Ted Berrigan's sonnet sequences, then suddenly it
seems to veer into all possible sequences, a globalism which is the
point. Not to like these works is like rejecting New Orleans
because it is full of pleasure. Everything seems to be packed in
here, even oneself. But the self that you discover is strange and
seems like nothing you had guessed as yourself before. We have just
stepped on Mars by mechanics; Wright has been there for a long time
by human means and refusing to clean up. 'Between the mess and the
message' and the mesa and the mismatch, there he lies.--David
Shapiro
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