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Through these poems, Jacques has achieved a balance between form and function, allowing readers to embark on a rhythmic journey of expression, language, and human existence.
About the author
Geoffrey Jacques is a poet and critic whose work has been published internationally. His poetry has previously appeared in
Callaloo, Hambone, MiPoesias, Black Renaissance Noire, Fence, Miramar, Askew, O-Blek, Tidal Basin Review, and
Long News in the Short Century and in several anthologies including
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (Wayne State University Press, 2001) and
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America. Tuscaloosa. He has also published three books of poetry, including
Just for a Thrill (Wayne State University Press, 2005). His other works include
A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary. A former MacDowell Colony fellow, Jacques is also a teacher and author of works about literature, culture, politics, film, and the visual arts.
Summary
This powerful collection of poems draws on American and African- American experimental lyric traditions, pushing language and form to their limits. Geoffrey Jacques’s poetry inspires deep thought, taking up themes of music, psychology, and literature.
