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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. With selections from five acclaimed volumes-including his Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning debut, Leaving Saturn (2002), the NAACP Image Award finalist Hoops (2006), and his vulnerable, philosophical latest, The Absurd Man (2020)-along with three dozen new poems, Razzle Dazzle traces the e...

Foregrounding the possibilities of human song

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lo...

Inspired by Albert Camus's seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet as "absurd hero" and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson's restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage, and grieves his lo...

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. These unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

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 bes...

In these poems of broken unions and acute longing, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as seductive forces in our lives.

In Hoops, Major Jackson continues to mine the solemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement backyard, a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French painters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of American citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent.

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 bes...

In this collection, which features both formal and free-verse poems, Major Jackson renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage and creativity he witnessed among his family, neighbours and friends while growing up in Philadelphia.