The Absurd Man: Poems

Awards:   Short-listed for NEIBA New England Book Award 2019
Author:   Major Jackson (Vanderbilt University)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
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9781324004554


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   19 May 2020
Format:   Hardback
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  • Short-listed for NEIBA New England Book Award 2019

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Author:   Major Jackson (Vanderbilt University)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.282kg
ISBN:  

9781324004554


ISBN 10:   132400455
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   19 May 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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At the end of his richly introspective and engagingly vulnerable collection, The Absurd Man, Major Jackson, referring to his double self, also a character in the collection, observes wryly, 'Tragically, he believes he can mend his wounds with his poetry.' And in this everything hopeful, elegant, daring, and unsettlingly absurd about The Absurd Man is spoken. Jackson embraces the existential absurdity of this 'tragedy' and yet, in doing so, he gives us poems that dare to challenge hopelessness with language. -- Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones Poems in Major Jackson's The Absurd Man are fashioned from masks and personae, impersonations and thrown voices. How ironic then that this fifth and most daring book yet sings deeply, solemn and vulnerable, a blues for our times. One of the root meanings of the word absurd is 'out of tune.' To be out of tune with these years of American absurdity, Jackson's adroit lyrics resonate through a kind of fission, the collision of selves and personal histories yielding a most genuine ore. These poems face the music of their own making. -- Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Digest


Erudite...Moments of startling linguistic play interrupt Jackson's elegant semiformal style... [The Absurd Man] bring[s] us back to an existential truth that only poetry's fierce tenderness can offer. -- Sandra Simonds - New York Times Book Review No American poet wears his genius as lightly as Jackson, whose poems here reach new heights of companionable style. -- John Freeman - LitHub Poems in Major Jackson's The Absurd Man are fashioned from masks and personae, impersonations and thrown voices. How ironic then that this fifth and most daring book yet sings deeply, solemn and vulnerable, a blues for our times. One of the root meanings of the word absurd is 'out of tune.' To be out of tune with these years of American absurdity, Jackson's adroit lyrics resonate through a kind of fission, the collision of selves and personal histories yielding a most genuine ore. These poems face the music of their own making. -- Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Digest At the end of his richly introspective and engagingly vulnerable collection, The Absurd Man, Major Jackson, referring to his double self, also a character in the collection, observes wryly, 'Tragically, he believes he can mend his wounds with his poetry.' And in this everything hopeful, elegant, daring, and unsettlingly absurd about The Absurd Man is spoken. Jackson embraces the existential absurdity of this 'tragedy' and yet, in doing so, he gives us poems that dare to challenge hopelessness with language. -- Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones Jackson's eye is laser-sharp and wry...Throughout the book, [his] weaving of mythology and literary references serve as context for confrontations with personal ghosts. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)


Jackson's eye is laser-sharp and wry...Throughout the book, [his] weaving of mythology and literary references serve as context for confrontations with personal ghosts. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) At the end of his richly introspective and engagingly vulnerable collection, The Absurd Man, Major Jackson, referring to his double self, also a character in the collection, observes wryly, 'Tragically, he believes he can mend his wounds with his poetry.' And in this everything hopeful, elegant, daring, and unsettlingly absurd about The Absurd Man is spoken. Jackson embraces the existential absurdity of this 'tragedy' and yet, in doing so, he gives us poems that dare to challenge hopelessness with language. -- Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones Poems in Major Jackson's The Absurd Man are fashioned from masks and personae, impersonations and thrown voices. How ironic then that this fifth and most daring book yet sings deeply, solemn and vulnerable, a blues for our times. One of the root meanings of the word absurd is 'out of tune.' To be out of tune with these years of American absurdity, Jackson's adroit lyrics resonate through a kind of fission, the collision of selves and personal histories yielding a most genuine ore. These poems face the music of their own making. -- Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Digest No American poet wears his genius as lightly as Jackson, whose poems here reach new heights of companionable style. -- John Freeman - LitHub Erudite...Moments of startling linguistic play interrupt Jackson's elegant semiformal style... [The Absurd Man] bring[s] us back to an existential truth that only poetry's fierce tenderness can offer. -- Sandra Simonds - New York Times Book Review


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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.

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