Holding Company - Poems

In Holding Company, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as a kingdom, or an empire, a dark, seductive force in our lives. In an effort to understand desire, beauty and love as transient anodynes to metaphysical loneliness, he invokes Constantine Cavafy, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova and Dante Rossetti.

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

"A devastatingly beautiful collection of strange and wonderful poems." —Poetry Daily

Product details

• Authors: Major Jackson
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2012
• EAN: 9780393341126
• ISBN: 978-0-393-34112-6
• No. of pages: 112
• Weight: 150 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies