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
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393070808
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 : David Howard
Publisher :
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN : 9780908784714
Author : Major Jackson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1324004150
"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
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822991020
"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
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393059373
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
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 082032342X
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 : Emily Dickinson
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 1924
Category : American poetry
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Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1982106581
The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry—“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets)—now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since 1988, The Best American Poetry has been the leading anthology of contemporary American poetry. The Washington Post said of the 2017 edition, “The poems...have a wonderful cohesion and flow, as if each contributes to a larger narrative about life today…While readers may question some of the selections—an annual sport with this series—most will find much that resonates, including the insightful author notes at the back of the anthology.” The state of the world has inspired many to write poetry, and to read it—to share all the rage, beauty, and every other thing under the sun in the way that only poetry can. Now the foremost anthology of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Major Jackson, the poet and editor who, “makes poems that rumble and rock” (poet Dorianne Laux). This brilliant 2019 edition includes some of the year’s most defining, striking, and innovative poems and poets.
Author : Patricia Lockwood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0698156781
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
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393246906
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?