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Praise for Major Jackson"No American poet wears his genius as lightly as Jackson."
- John Freeman, LitHub"Jackson seems to define himself by his eclecticism.... His poems are witty, musical, and intelligent."
- The New Yorker"Moments of startling linguistic play interrupt Jackson's elegant semiformal style."
- Sandra Simonds, New York Times Book Review"Major Jackson has coined an idiom and music all his own."
- Carl Phillips"Jackson's adroit lyrics resonate through a kind of fission, the collision of selves and personal histories yielding a most genuine ore."
- Gregory Pardlo"[Jackson's] lush language invites us into the exquisite realms here at our feet.... Take it in, be fed, feel close to something elemental again."
- Naomi Shihab Nye, New York Times Magazine"[Major Jackson's] poems explore a sense of place that is profoundly human, their vision expansive and generous.... Jackson has created a new poetry of praise."
- San Francisco Chronicle"Major Jackson's voice arrives with a dissonant, unforgettable blast of perspectives and forms. This is poetry to listen to, to reckon with."
- Susan Larson, Times Picayune
About the author
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.
Summary
Winner of the Patricia Cannon Willis Prize for American Poetry An exuberant collection of two decades of Major Jackson’s passionately intelligent poetry.
