"Jay Wright is one of the five or six living American poets whose work will survive." -- Harold Bloom
"Jay Wright is a brilliant and Original poet difficult and allusive, beating his own unpredictable path through a variety of terrains." -- John Hollander
"Wright is an intellectual poet, a poet's poet, upon whose tabula rasa may be read influences of Dante, Eliot, the African griots, Alejo Carpentier, and Nicolas Guillen."
"Wright invites us to roam the cultures of the transatlantic world, to speak and know many tongues, to partake of the rituals through which we may be initiated into modes of individual and communal enhancement. In yet another age of great uncertainty, Wright enables us to imagine that breaking the vessels of the past is more an act of uncovering than of sheer destruction, and that we need not necessarily choose between an intellectual and a spiritual life, for both can still be had." -- Robert B. Stepto
With occult emotionality and analytic brilliance, Jay Wright has written the user's guide to evanescence' -GoodReads