The Absurd Man: Poems [Paperback]

In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment. Erudite...Moments of startling linguistic play interrupt Jackson's elegant semiformal style... [ No American poet wears his genius as lightly as Jackson, whose poems here reach new heights of companionable style. Poems in Major Jacksons At the end of his richly introspective and engagingly vulnerable collection, 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.