"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.
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"At times mysterious and at others matter-of-fact, this collection provides much to savor." -- American Poet "Passionate, urgent, and lonely . . . [ including] lines and images as delicious as they are surprising." -- Library Journal
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Your Hourglass & No One Else to Blame |
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You, who carry daylight on your face |
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Poem Beginning with a Line by Dante Rossetti |
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Strangers Are Not Strangers |
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On Removing the Wedding Band |
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Delicious. I love you. Goodbye |
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An Empire of Hand-Holding & Park Benches |
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On the Manner of Addressing Shadows |
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The Giant Swing Ending in a Split |
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My Face in the ATM Screen |
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| Notes |
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| About the Author |
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Major Jackson is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
