The Absurd Man: Poems - Couverture souple

Jackson, Major

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393867412 ISBN 13 : 9780393867411

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2021

Synopsis

In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savours the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.

Inspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures the poet as “absurd hero” and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world. We follow Jackson’s restless, vulnerable speaker as he ponders creation in the face of meaninglessness, chronicles an increasingly technological world, and the difficulty of social and political unity, probes a failed marriage and grieves his lost mother with a stunning, lucid lyricism.

The arc of a man emerges; he bravely confronts his past, including his betrayals and his mistakes, and questions who he is as a father, as a husband, as a son and as a poet. With intense musicality and verve, The Absurd Man also faces outward, finding refuge in intellectual and sensuous passions. At once melancholic and jubilant, Jackson considers the journey of humanity, with all its foibles, as a sacred pattern of discovery reconciled by art and the imagination.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Major Jackson is the author of five volumes of poems, including Roll Deep and Leaving Saturn, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review, Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393867412
• ISBN 13: 9780393867411
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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• Personne responsable: non disponible