Razzle dazzle : new and selected poems, 2002-2022 /
A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music through five acclaimed volumes, his Cave Cane...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A preeminent voice in contemporary literature, Major Jackson offers steady miracles of vision and celebrations of language in rapturous, sophisticated poems. Razzle Dazzle traces the evolution of Jackson's transformative imagination and fierce music through five acclaimed volumes, his Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning debut, Leaving Saturn (2002), which captures the spirit of resilience in the Philadelphia neighborhoods of the poet's youth, Hoops (2006), which finds transcendence in the solemn marvels of ordinary lives, Holding Company (2010), which shifts away from narrative to explore the seductive force of art, literature and music, Roll Deep (2015), which addresses human intimacy, war and the spirit of aesthetic travel and his vulnerable, philosophical latest, The Absurd Man (2020). The volume opens with over three dozen new poems that erupt into full-throated song in the face of indignity and invite us into a passionate experience of the world. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 266 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1324064900 9781324064909 |