Hoops
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Lush meditations by a poet whose previous book, Leaving Saturn , was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In Hoops , Major Jackson continues to mine the solemn marvels of ordinary lives: a grandfather gardens in a tenement backyard; a teacher unconsciously renames her black students after French painters. The substance of Jackson's art is the representation of American citizens whose heroic endurance makes them remarkable and transcendent...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393059375
ISBN13:9780393059373
Release Date:March 2006
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:125 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"
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This is a real poet, one who chooses to speak to all of us, not just a select audience.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Don't miss this book. Jackson reminds us that poetry speaks to us all, heals us all, erases our differences, joins us all.
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