Description
Book SynopsisIn this collection, Major Jackson reveals and revels in the work of poetry to not only limn and give access to the intellectual width and spiritual depth of poets, but also to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from traumas, and the social function of the art itself.
Table of Contents
- On Poetry: My Lyrical Self
- My Lyrical Self
- Radios
- Convergences and Confluences
- The Necessity of Language as Freedom
- A Mystifying Silence: Big and Black
- Ancient Enmity
- Best American Poetry 2019
- The Dadaab Suite: An Introduction
- On Poets: Tales of the Heroic
- The Historical Poem
- Tales of the Heroic
- Hayden Collected Poems
- Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain
- Wallace Stevens After “Lunch”
- Making is the Mirror
- Listen Children
- Assuming the Mask: On Ai’s Poetry
- Anatomy of a Pulitzer Prize letter
- Stomping with Garrett
- Delight, Exactitude, and a Faith
- Flash Reviews
- On Entryways: A Beat Beyond
- Influence of the Non-Literary Variety
- Do You Want More??!!?
- Watts Prophets
- Living Legends
- Black Poetry: A Beat Beyond
