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In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of poets, but to amplify the controversies and inner conflicts that define our age: political unrest, climate crises, the fallout from bewildering traumas, and the social function of the art of poetry itself. Accessible and critically minded, Jackson returns to the poem as an unparalleled source of linguistic pleasure that structures a multilayered "lyric self." In his interviews, Jackson illustrates poetry's distinct ability to mediate the inexplicable while foregrounding the possibilities of human song.
Collected over several decades, these essays find Jackson praising mythmaking in Frank Bidart and Ai's poetry, expressing bafflement at the silence of white-identified poets in the cause of social and racial justice, unearthing the politics behind Gwendolyn Brooks's Pulitzer Prize, and marveling at the "hallucinatory speed of thought" in a diverse range of poets including Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Brenda Hillman, Afaa Michael Weaver, Forrest Gander, and Terrance Hayes. This collection passionately surveys the radical shifts of the art and notes poetry as a necessity for a modern sensibility.
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
