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Author: Major Jackson Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393070808 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 110
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A collection of ten-lined poems by Major Jackson in which he explores the extremes of human emotion, including bewilderment, joy, desire, heartbreak, and tragedy.
Author: Major Jackson Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393070808 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 110
Book Description
A collection of ten-lined poems by Major Jackson in which he explores the extremes of human emotion, including bewilderment, joy, desire, heartbreak, and tragedy.
Author: Major Jackson Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324004150 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 112
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"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." —Poetry Daily In these poems of broken unions and acute longing, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as seductive forces in our lives.
Author: John Hodgen Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 0822991020 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 95
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"Heaven & Earth Holding Company contains a plentitude of delights. Like little stories told in the night, these poems are clear narratives crossed by mysterious shadows. And Hodgen's tone occupies a singular place at the intersection of funky wit and true feeling."—Billy Collins
Author: Major Jackson Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: 9780393059373 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 125
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A collection of poetic meditations by the National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist author of Leaving Saturn evaluates the solemn richness of everyday lives, from a grandfather who gardens in a tenement backyard to a teacher to renames her black students after French painters.
Author: Major Jackson Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 082032342X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 94
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Leaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he witnessed among his family, neighbors, and friends while growing up in Philadelphia. His poems hauntingly reflect urban decay and violence, yet at the same time they rejoice in the sustaining power of music and the potency of community. Jackson also honors artists who have served as models of resistance and maintained their own faith in the belief of the imagination to alter lives. The title poem, a dramatic monologue in the voice of the American jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra, details such a humane program and serves as an admirable tribute to the tradition of African American art. Throughout, Jackson unflinchingly portrays our most devastated landscapes, yet with a vividness and compassion that expose the depth of his imaginative powers.
Author: Patricia Lockwood Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698156781 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 82
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The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire “A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn’t anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of Lockwood’s lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems’ subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.
Author: Major Jackson Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393246906 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 83
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A whimsical and “devastatingly effective” (Washington Post) collection that captures the spirit of travel and pays homage to heritage. In his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of “rolling deep” to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental—his “crew.” The confident and radiant poems in Roll Deep address a range of topics, most prominently human intimacy and war. And like his best work to date, these poems create new experiences with language owed to Jackson’s willingness to once again seek a rhythmic sound that expresses the unique realities of the twenty-first century with humor and understanding. Whether set in Nairobi, Madrid, or Greece, the poems are sensuously evocative and unapologetically with-it, in their effort to build community across borders of language and style. From Urban Renewal, “The Dadaab Suite”: I have come to Dadaab like an actor on a press release, unprepared for the drained faces of famine-fleeing refugees, my craft’s glamour dimmed by hundreds of infant graves, children whose lolling heads’ final drop landed on their mothers’ backs like soft stones. What beauty can I spell in this swelter of dust?
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