Hoops Poems |
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| Author:
| Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus |
| ISBN: | 978-0-393-05937-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $23.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.